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dun⋅ga⋅ree

  [duhng-guh-ree]
–noun
1. dungarees,
a. work clothes, overalls, etc., of blue denim.
b. blue jeans.
2. blue denim.
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Origin:
1605–15; < Hindi dungrī kind of coarse cloth
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dun·ga·ree   (dŭng'gə-rē')   
n.  

  1. A sturdy, often blue denim fabric.

  2. dungarees Trousers or overalls made of sturdy denim fabric.


[Hindi duṁgrī.]
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Word Origin & History

dungaree 
1613, from Hindi dungri "coarse calico," from the name of a village, now one of the quarters of Bombay.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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dungarees

trousers originally designed in the United States by Levi Strauss in the mid-19th century as durable work clothes, with the seams and other points of stress reinforced with small copper rivets. They were eventually adopted by workingmen throughout the United States and then worldwide.

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