denim

UK/ˈdɛnɪm/US/ˈdɛnəm/

nounB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,740 of 15,258neutral

Denim is the tough blue cotton fabric jeans are made of. A denim jacket, raw denim, faded denim.

It is woven so that the blue thread shows on the face and white on the back, which is why it fades to white where it wears. Only the warp is dyed, and the dye sits on the surface of the thread rather than soaking in.

Definitions of denim

1noundenimThe tough blue cotton fabric jeans are made of.B2
“She wore a faded denim jacket over her summer dress.”

denim is a fabric.

Where it comes from

From the French phrase de Nimes, from Nimes, the town whose serge cloth gave the fabric its name.

Built from

de Nîmes · French — from Nîmes

From the French - phrase de Nîmes (“from Nîmes”), after the French town of Nîmes, where denim fabric was originally produced.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Clothes & Fashion

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denim in the wild

Jeans are a type of trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth.
Jeans
Overalls were originally made of denim, but they can also be made of other materials such as corduroy, chino cloth, or leather.
Overalls
In the film Travellers and Magicians by Khyentse Norbu, the main actor Tshewang Dendup wears a denim gho.
Gho
A denim skirt, sometimes referred to as a 'jean skirt' or 'jeans skirt', is a skirt made of denim, the same material as blue jeans.
Denim skirt
In contrast, in the mainstream culture, shorter skirts made of denim are commonly worn by teenagers and young adults.
Denim skirt

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