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jeans

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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.]
jeans
Noun, pl
casual denim trousers [from jean fustian fabric from Genoa]
Translations
Spanish jeans [dʒiːnz] npl → (pantalones mpl) vaqueros mpl or tejanos mpl; bluejean m inv (LAM)
French jeans [dʒiːnz] npl → jean m
German jeans [dʒiːnz] npl → Jeans pl
Italian jeans [dʒiːnz] npl → (blue-)jeans mpl
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He had an old battered-up slouch hat on, and a greasy blue woollen shirt, and ragged old blue jeans britches stuffed into his boot-tops, and home-knit galluses -- no, he only had one.
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Me for the laundry, and a good front, with big iron dollars clinkin' in my jeans.
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