What does homely as a hedge fence mean?

homely as a hedge fence

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English

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American usage; Dated

""I must have a husband!" said Miss Crooks, "what shall I do? Here I am hard upon my 25th year, and they say I am as homely as a hedge fence to boot! what shall I do?""
"This Subaru station wagon was as homely as a hedge fence and cramped as a corn crib, but it was the immediate hit of every ski town in the country."
""Louise had been sweet-tempered but homely as a hedge fence," Charlotte observes, "[…] pools of wrinkles widened out over her face like somebody had thrown a pebble in it.""

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