blue jeans

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See also: bluejeans and blue-jeans

English

A man wearing a pair of blue jeans.

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Noun

blue jeans pl (normally plural, singular blue jean)

  1. A pair of trousers made from denim cotton and dyed dark blue.
    • 1964, “The House of the Rising Sun”, performed by The Animals:
      My mother was a tailor / She sewed my new blue jeans / My father was a gamblin' man / Down in New Orleans

Descendants

  • French: bluejean
  • Romanian: blugi
  • Spanish: bluyín

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