Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or reminiscent of a simple, wholesome, unpretentious lifestyle, especially that associated with the rural southern United States.
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- adjective
Simple andunpretentious , especially having the characteristics of a Southernrural lifestyle .
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Examples
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Mom said she was a really good cook, and lots of people came in now for her specialties, like barbecued ribs and what she called her down-home meat loaf.
DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007
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Mom said she was a really good cook, and lots of people came in now for her specialties, like barbecued ribs and what she called her down-home meat loaf.
DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007
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It was all what Cisco and Ezra called down-home food.
Family Blessings Fern Michaels 2004
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It was all what Cisco and Ezra called down-home food.
Family Blessings Fern Michaels 2004
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It was all what Cisco and Ezra called down-home food.
Family Blessings Fern Michaels 2004
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Its short, brutal career — a mere 18 months, ending at Talladega — demonstrates how cutthroat, globalized, and technologically advanced this purportedly down-home sport has become.
Wild Ride 2010
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Stunningly refreshing, unaffected and informed, Your Environmental Road Trip makes a critical leap beyond all of the climate change and dirty energy catastrophe film masterpieces in circulation -- most notably, of course, Al Gore's Oscar-winning epic, An Inconvenient Truth -- by presenting climate destabilization issues through the down-home visions and ordinary efforts of unabashedly optimistic and incorrigibly determined innovators and sustainable community endeavors.
Jeff Biggers: Beyond Hope: Groundbreaking Environmental Road Trip Film Takes Climate Change Solutions Back Home Jeff Biggers 2012
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Stunningly refreshing, unaffected and informed, Your Environmental Road Trip makes a critical leap beyond all of the climate change and dirty energy catastrophe film masterpieces in circulation -- most notably, of course, Al Gore's Oscar-winning epic, An Inconvenient Truth -- by presenting climate destabilization issues through the down-home visions and ordinary efforts of unabashedly optimistic and incorrigibly determined innovators and sustainable community endeavors.
Jeff Biggers: Beyond Hope: Groundbreaking Environmental Road Trip Film Takes Climate Change Solutions Back Home Jeff Biggers 2012
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If memory serves me as a down-home Mobile boy before I had the good sense to move to San Francisco, the best restaurant in Houston is a Waffle House, hold the KARO.
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If memory serves me as a down-home Mobile boy before I had the good sense to move to San Francisco, the best restaurant in Houston is a Waffle House, hold the KARO.
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