jersey
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jersey/ˈʤɜːzi/
▶noun (pl. jerseys)
- 1 a knitted garment with long sleeves, worn over the upper body.
- 2 a distinctive shirt worn by a player in certain sports.
- 3 a soft knitted fabric.
- 4 (Jersey) an animal of a breed of light brown dairy cattle from Jersey.
– origin C16 (denoting woollen worsted fabric made in the Channel Island of Jersey).
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