jeans
Noun
- (usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear
- a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric
- A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.
- plural of jean
Examples
- "Traditionally most jeans are dyed dark blue."
Origin / Etymology
From Gene(s) (also spelled Jean(s)), an obsolete English name for the Italian city of Genoa. Compare French Gênes. In the context of clothing, the term originally denoted a kind of coarse cotton (known more fully as Gene(s) fustian) that was associated with Genoa. It began to be used for trousers made of such cloth in the 19th century. At this point, the final -s was reanalysed as a plural ending.
Scrabble Score: 12
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Words With Friends Score: 15
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