denim
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From the French phrase de Nîmes (“from Nîmes”), after the French town of Nîmes, where denim fabric was originally produced.
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denim (countable and uncountable, plural denims)
- A textile often made of cotton with a distinct diagonal pattern.
- 1889, William Eleroy Curtis, “The Commerce of Mexico”, in Trade and Transportation Between the United States and Spanish America, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, part first (Trade), chapter section “The cotton trade”, page 31:
- The Mexican people want a cheaper grade of drillings, sheetings, denims, and other fabrics than are called for in our domestic markets, and purchase them in England because they can not be bought in the United States.
- 1938, Omnibook, page 465:
- Fabrics: Gamine fabrics are informal as possible. For sports: tweeds, flannels, suedes, cottons, and denims;
- 1946, United States Tariff Commission, Dyes: Prepared in Response to Requests from the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives (War Changes in Industry Series; Report No. 19), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 25:
- Indigo, a typical member of this group of dyes, is widely used on denims and other fabrics for work clothes because of its very low cost and excellent fastness to washing.
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textile with diagonal pattern
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denim n (uncountable)
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Etymology edit
From serge de Nîmes (“serge from Nîmes”), after the French town of Nîmes, where denim fabric was originally produced.
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denim m (plural denims)
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·denim
- Alternative spelling of ·dénim
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Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
·denim | ·denim pronounced with /-ð(ʲ)-/ |
·ndenim |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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denim m (uncountable)
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- Hyphenation: de‧nim
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denim (definite accusative denimi, plural denimler)
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- “denim”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu