Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HOME'LY
HOME'LY, a. [from home.]
- Of plain features; not handsome; as, a homely face. It expresses less than ugly. Let time, which makes you homely, make you wise.
- Plain; like that which is made for common domestic use; rude; coarse; not fine or elegant; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare. Now Strephon daily entertains / His Chloe in the homeliest strains. Pope.
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