Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A heavy, strong, twilled cotton, used in making uniforms and work clothes.
- n. Pants made of jean, denim, or another durable fabric.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as jane, 1.
- n. A twilled cotton cloth, used both for underwear and for outer clothing: commonly, of garments, in the plural. Also written jane.
Wiktionary
- n. Denim.
- adj. Made of denim (as "jean jacket").
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A twilled cotton cloth.
- n. Same as blue jeans.
- n. Pants made of different fabrics, resembling blue jeans.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear
- n. a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric
Etymologies
- Short for obsolete jene (fustian), Genoan (fustian), from Middle English jene, gene, from Old French Genes, Genoa.
Examples
“Seeing the wolf people hand out in jean cut-offs together is killing me LOL!”
“Posted in jean charest, quebec liberals, supplemental bonus.”
“Tuesday, 7 November, 2006 at 13: 43 yeaaaahhhh, the skinny jean is actually the invention of the devil.”
“Super sexy busty webcam girl Sindee in short jean skirt - sexy webcam tease - sexy amateur homemade webcam video clip wildgirlsexy on Feb 24 7: 06AM”
“For her 35-minute opening act, the singer, who showed off her controversial curves in short jean shorts and tan cowboy boots, wiped away tears, forgot her words and dedicated a song to her sister”
“After negating several stores just for sheer similarity in jean sizes and one place that had $98 pairs (I won’t pay over $50 for just jeans), I tried on about 40 pairs of jeans.”
“What he had plainly fixed in his mind was the man called jean Brissault.”
“He had picked three names - three from many locked in childhood 'There was this guy called jean and adolescent memory.”
“The man is known as a jean-sneakers-jacket guy, so I asked him: regarding the neckwear, WTF, mate?”
“As you probably know, the scavenger hunt called jean shopping can take all day if you do it right.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jean’.
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songbirds
Names of girls in song titles. Not in the lyrics, just in the titles.
Just the name on the list, then the full title with any identifying notes in the comments, please.
Can be the same ...marianne, evie, lady d'arbanville, peggy sue, suzanne, dianne, boni maroni, miss molly, lola, mony, sadie, rita and 206 more...
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Common English Words That Are Also First Names.
art, bob, bill, grace, hope, john, heather, pat, amber, jack, dale, glen and 170 more...
chained_bear Also "Oh Jean," a great (if weird) song by the Proclaimers, and "5 Green Queens & Jean" by the Pogues. Feb 9, 2008
treeseed Jean by Oliver went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969. This is a song from the soundtrack of the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and was written by Rod McKuen who also recorded it. Feb 9, 2008