jean
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jean/ʤiːn/
▶noun heavy twilled cotton cloth, especially denim.
– origin C15 (as adj.): from OFr. Janne (now Gênes), from med. L. Janua ‘Genoa’, the place of original production.
'jean' also found in these Oxford entries:
allamanda
- baud
- chaptalization
- Fourier series
- jeans
- Lamarckism
- martinet
- nicotiana
- Peltier effect
- poise
- robinia

