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I long ago learned to stick with invisible-Dad clothes, such as Chinos, full-placket cotton-blend shirts and a cardigan sweater or fleece jacket.
C'mon, guys, wear leggings! Ann Althouse 2007
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'Chinos' in this dodge, who are all adepts in all sorts of
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp
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Chinos are not in fact khaki; they are yea you guessed it something else entirely in my book.
I get email... Reader Tim challenges me with "Khaki" - dfi 2009
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He dressed nicely, in Chinos and a button-down shirt.
White girl/boy angst 2010
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Chinos or wool pants, business shirts, sweaters and corduroy blazers are the extent of my travel wardrobe.
The Very Big Village jodifur 2008
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If any of you read Spanish, please read Andrés Oppenheimer's new book "Cuentos Chinos" -- not yet translated into English -- which starts off discussing two studies recently made one by the CIA and the other by the European Union's specialist in Latin American affairs.
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"I like to be around on Wednesdays because that's the one day the vegetables come in from the Chinos 'farm way down in Rancho Santa Fe," she writes.
Alice's Wonderland 2008
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The desert itself was known for a time as El Desierto de los Chinos, 'Desert of the Chinese.'
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Chinos and button-down shirts mark kids as preppies a thousand miles from Andover; baggy jeans signify hip-hop on a Laotian kid in Iowa no less than on a homeboy straight out of Bed-Stuy.
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The desert itself was known for a time as El Desierto de los Chinos, 'Desert of the Chinese.'
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