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Denim trousers, traditionally blue, originally cut from jean cloth (‘jene fustian’), a heavy canvas made in Genoa, Italy. In the 1850s Levi Strauss, a Bavarian immigrant to the USA, made sturdy trousers for goldminers in San Francisco out of jean material intended for wagon covers. Later a French fabric, serge de Nîmes (corrupted to ‘denim’), was used. Denim jeans became fashionable casual wear in the 1950s in the USA and have since been produced in a wide variety of styles by many designers.
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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.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
You sell it to him, poke the six hundred into your jeans, and pull South for California while the goin's good.
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