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| Sir James (Hop⋅wood) [hop-wood] , 1877–1946, English astrophysicist and author. |
[jeen or, for 1, Brit. formerly jeyn] | 1. | Sometimes, jeans. a sturdy twilled fabric, usually of cotton. |
| 2. | jeans, (used with a plural verb)
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[Fr. zhahn for 1, 2; jeen for 3] | 1. | born 1921, Grand Duke of Luxembourg 1964–2000. |
| 2. | a male given name, form of John. |
| 3. | a female given name. |
| jean (jēn) n.
[Short for obsolete jene (fustian), Genoan (fustian), from Middle English jene, gene, from Old French Genes, Genoa.] |
jeans
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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