Home-set

Quick meaning: Home-set is a noun meaning A perm that is applied at home, rather than in a beauty salon.

Meaning

A perm that is applied at home, rather than in a beauty salon.

More Meanings

1. Set by the user, as opposed to by a professional.
2. Alternative form of homeset.

Example Sentences

Pappie's home-set remedy is what we used if we wanted to put curls in our hair.

And her home-set perm looked, as the commercial had promised, like it had been done in a salon.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• home-sets

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include down-set, pace-setting, set-up, homeschool, home schooler, housesitter.

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