home-set

See also: homeset and home set

English edit

Noun edit

home-set (plural home-sets)

Alternative form of homeset
1. Type specific to a publisher
  - 2015, Thomas D. Clark, Holman Hamilton, Three American Frontiers: Writings of Thomas D. Clark, →ISBN, page 46:
    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.
2. Device for home entertainment
  - 2008, Kazuo Usui, The Development of Marketing Management, →ISBN:
    [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.
A perm that is applied at home, rather than in a beauty salon.
- 2007, Christopher Nosnibor, Bad Houses, →ISBN, page 21:
  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.
- 2014, Ken Wheaton, Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears, →ISBN:
  And her home-set perm looked, as the commercial had promised, like it had been done in a salon.
- 2015, The Buntyn Family, Cornbread in Buttermilk: The Delicacies of Love and Sacrifice, →ISBN:
  Pappie's home-set remedy is what we used if we wanted to put curls in our hair.

Adjective edit

home-set (not comparable)

Set by the user, as opposed to by a professional.
- 2011, James Jones, Whistle, →ISBN:
  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.