bush-made

adjective

Constructed or produced in an outback region using locally available materials, and typically rough or makeshift.

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Meanings

adjectivebush-made (not comparable)
  1. Australianot comparableConstructed or produced in an outback region using locally available materials, and typically rough or makeshift.

    I glanced around at the iron and bark walls decorated with spears and ochred totem-sticks, at the bare floor of hard earth, at the hurricane lamp dimly glowing upon rough, bush-made furniture.

    1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 207
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