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down-home definition

☆ down·-home (-hōm′)

adjective

  1. of, from, or associated with a rural, esp. Southern, area
  2. having characteristics associated with rural people; simple, warm, direct, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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