Definition of jean
1 : a durable twilled cotton cloth used especially for sportswear and work clothes
2 : pants usually made of jean or denim —usually used in plural
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The challenge for the reader is to spot all the errors, like the can of spray paint in the Neolithic cave, the steering wheel on the Viking ship, the Roman soldier wearing jeans.
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Get your blue jeans and cowboy boots ready, San Diego.
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The deputy squeezed K.P.’s breasts and lifted the underwire of her bra through her shirt and put her hands into the pockets of K.P.’s jeans and, through the pockets, felt under K.P.’s underwear, the lawsuit says.
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Microsoft President Brad Smith and blue-jeans manufacturer Levi Strauss & Co.
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The deputy squeezed K.P.’s breasts and lifted the underwire of her bra through her shirt and put her hands into the pockets of K.P.’s jeans and, through the pockets, felt under K.P.’s underwear, the lawsuit says.
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Davis was wearing a t-shirt, jeans and pink converse tennis shoes.
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The students—bedecked with hoop earrings, high-gelled bangs, tight jeans, and tattoos—laugh and smoke.
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The shooter was described as being 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-11, between the ages of 25 and 30, and wearing white or gray jeans and a black hoodie, police said.
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Origin and Etymology of jean
short for jean fustian, from Middle English Gene Genoa, Italy + fustian
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