"homely as a hedge fence" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1850 October 7, \"A Trifling Mistake,\" The Adams Sentinal (Gettysbury, Pennsylvania), p. 1 (Google news archive)",
          "text": "\"I must have a husband!\" said Miss Crooks, \"what shall I do? Here I am hard upon my 25th year, and they say I am as homely as a hedge fence to boot! what shall I do?\""
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          "ref": "1988 December, Denise McCluggage, \"Top Snow Country Vehicles,\" Snow Country Magazine, p. 71 (Google preview) (retrieved 7 April 2019)",
          "text": "This Subaru station wagon was as homely as a hedge fence and cramped as a corn crib, but it was the immediate hit of every ski town in the country."
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          "ref": "2008 July 12, Anna Mundow, “Legends of Troy”, in Irish Times, retrieved 2019-04-07",
          "text": "\"Louise had been sweet-tempered but homely as a hedge fence,\" Charlotte observes, \"[…] pools of wrinkles widened out over her face like somebody had thrown a pebble in it.\"",
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        "Having no physically attractive characteristics, but not blatantly ugly; very plain in appearance."
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        "(chiefly US, dated, idiomatic) Having no physically attractive characteristics, but not blatantly ugly; very plain in appearance."
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          "ref": "1850 October 7, \"A Trifling Mistake,\" The Adams Sentinal (Gettysbury, Pennsylvania), p. 1 (Google news archive)",
          "text": "\"I must have a husband!\" said Miss Crooks, \"what shall I do? Here I am hard upon my 25th year, and they say I am as homely as a hedge fence to boot! what shall I do?\""
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