home-set

plural home-sets

1. Alternative form of homeset.
   1. Type specific to a publisher

      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.

      2015, Thomas D. Clark, Holman Hamilton, Three American Frontiers: Writings of Thomas D. Clark, →ISBN, page 46

   2. Device for home entertainment

      [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.

      2008, Kazuo Usui, The Development of Marketing Management, →ISBN

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

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

   2015, The Buntyn Family, Cornbread in Buttermilk: The Delicacies of Love and Sacrifice, →ISBN

   2 more examples

   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.

   2007, Christopher Nosnibor, Bad Houses, →ISBN, page 21

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

   2014, Ken Wheaton, Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears, →ISBN

1. not comparableSet by the user, as opposed to by a professional.

   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.

   2011, James Jones, Whistle, →ISBN