town-madeadj.n.
/ˌtaʊnˈmeɪd/, U.S. /ˌtaʊnˈmeɪd/ A. adj.
That is produced in a town; originating from the town as opposed to the countryside. Cf. countrymade adj. 2.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [adjective] > manufactured or produced > manufactured in specific place
homemade1565
town-made1700
made1747
Canton1860
1700 E. Ward Journey to Hell v. 26 From a rural Grey to Town-made Cloaths.
1781 T. Holcroft Duplicity iv. ii. 58 So fine and pretty a town-made gentleman.
1809 Edinb. Rev. 13 253 This is the very slang of..the lowest of our town-made novels.
1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iii, in New Monthly Mag. 60 402 Town-made joys how dearly they cost.
1861 A. Wynter Our Social Bees 163 Adulteration to which all town-made bread is obnoxious.
1960 W. R. Brock Char. Amer. Hist. i. 21 In spite of the persistence of the agrarian cult American civilization has always been partly, and is now largely, a townmade product.
2002 F. D. Logan Hist. Church in Middle Ages viii. 131 Selling the excess to towns..provided the seller with actual money with which he could buy town-made goods.
An item which has been produced in a town. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > particular class of
line1834
town-made1835
run1861
brand1864
sideline1886
make1909
name brand1944
white goods1947
brown goods1976
positional goods1976
1835 C. Dickens in Bell's Life in London 11 Oct. 1/1 Mr. Augustus Cooper went away to one of the cheap shoemakers' shops in Holborn..and bought a pair of the regular seven-and-sixpenny, long-quartered, town-mades.
1870 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 24 Dec. 1/2 (advt.) In ladies' gloves,..best Town mades.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1700