a. Made or manufactured in a town; spec. in the town of the district. Also as sb.
1809. Edin. Rev., XIII. 253. This is the very slang of … the lowest of our town-made novels.
1837. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Dancing Acad. [He] bought a pair of the regular seven-and-sixpenny, long-quartered town-mades.
1840. Hood, Kilmansegg, Marriage, xxv. Town-made joys how dearly they cost.
1853. Perkins, Haberdashery (ed. 8), 90. Kid is valuable in proportion to its elasticity. When this quality is united with closeness of texture, the gloves called ‘Town made’ are so superior to most others of our own manufacture, as to rival the French.
1861. Wynter, Soc. Bees, 163. Adulteration to which all town-made bread is obnoxious.
