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jean  (jn)
n.
1. A heavy, strong, twilled cotton, used in making uniforms and work clothes.
2. jeans Pants made of jean, denim, or another durable fabric.
[Short for obsolete jene (fustian), Genoan (fustian), from Middle English jene, gene, from Old French Genes, Genoa.]
jean [dʒiːn]
n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a tough twill-weave cotton fabric used for hard-wearing trousers, overalls, etc. See also jeans
[short for jean fustian, from Gene Genoa]
Jean (French) [ʒɑ̃]
n
(Biographies / Jean (1921 M, Luxembourger, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) born 1921, grand duke of Luxembourg from 1964
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Noun1.jeanjean - (usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear
blue jean, denim
Levi's, levis - a popular brand of jeans
trouser, pant - (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately; "he had a sharp crease in his trousers"
workwear - heavy-duty clothes for manual or physical work
plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
2.jeanjean - a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric
dungaree, denim
cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"


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A poor Canadian, however, named Jean Baptiste Prevost, whom famine had rendered wild and desperate, ran frantically about the bank, after Jones had returned, crying out to Mr.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
Burns wrote love songs too, for he was constantly in love--often to his discredit, and at length he married Jean Armour, Scots fashion, by writing a paper saying that they were man and wife and giving it to her.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
The Republic of Plato is also the first treatise upon education, of which the writings of Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants.
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