Meaning of home-set | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Type specific to a publisher
2. Device for home entertainment
3. A perm that is applied at home, rather than in a beauty salon.

Examples

“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.”

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