home-set
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.39 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of homeset.
noun
Alternative form of homeset.
noun
A perm that is applied at home, rather than in a beauty salon.
adj
Set by the user, as opposed to by a professional.
Example Sentences
- "Agreeing to locate advertisements in advantageous places, they agreed also to carry a certain amount of material in “home-set” print in the news and editorial columns."
- "[R]adio now depends enormously on its replacements. Last year home-set replacements in fact account for some 3,000,000 units, or nearly three-fifths of the total U.S. home-set sales."
- "The less 'fortunate', and I use the term advisedly, had only outward growth to adjust to, as spare tyres of rippling flesh burst forth from the space between elasticated hipster jeans and children's-sized short t-shirts; rolls of belly and blobs of overspilling back-cleavage, which at least ensured well-insulated kidneys, were complimented by 3-inch hoop earrings in gold plate and whole cans of ozone-devouring superset hair lacquer applied to home-set perms."
- "And her home-set perm looked, as the commercial had promised, like it had been done in a salon."
- "Pappie's home-set remedy is what we used if we wanted to put curls in our hair."
- "In almost every home, behind the home-set, swirly glass window-pane, hung one of the blue star flags with one, or two, or more blue stars in its center indicating the male members of the family in the service."