dungarees

[duhng-guh-ree] Origin

dun·ga·ree

[duhng-guh-ree]
noun
1.
dungarees,
a.
work clothes, overalls, etc., of blue denim.
2.
blue denim.

Origin:
1605–15; < Hindi dungrī kind of coarse cloth
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dungarees
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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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