denim Definition
denim (den′im)
noun
a coarse, twilled, sturdy cotton cloth used as for jeans, overalls, and uniforms
Etymology: < Fr (serge) de Nîmes, (serge) of Nîmes, where first made
denim Usage Examples
Possessives
woman: You'll also find web exclusive offers for hundreds of women's denim.
Converse of object
- wear: However, only common laborers wore denim at all.
- use: A variety of things to make and do, recycling, renewing, useful gifts, use old denim, .. .
- bleach: Cropped trousers, in bleached denim with a red satin stripe or an array of prints.
- fade: He got out and started directly into the woods, wearing a faded denim billed cap and carrying machete and two flashlights.
Adjective modifier
- blue: Pastel shelving carried towers of blue denim up, up, into the stratosphere.
- dark: There will be new fabrications with a continued use of dark denim.
- black: All were worn with three-quarter-length trousers, either white cotton or black denim.
- Japanese: One True Saxon offering many styles of men's jeans all using hand made antique Japanese denim.
- vintage: Muse 3: Linda - Old school sneakers and vintage denim.
- indigo: Fabrics for clothes from mail order company Toast are crisp poplin or voile, linen, indigo denims and silk.
Modifies a noun
- jean: The first denim jeans were made by Levi Strauss from hemp.
- jacket: I grabbed the male in the denim jacket by wrapping both my arms around his torso, pinning his arms to his side.
- skirt: My fave item of clothing at the moment is a Be You K denim skirt.
- futon: In an denim futon cover article search to three.
- shirt: He wore a dangling plastic heart on his denim shirt pocket.
- mini: Ideal for wearing under retro printed skirts and dresses as well as denim mini 's.
Noun used with modifier
- premium: Whilst on the subject of videos, MSNBC also has an interesting video report on the premium denim market.
- stretch: Lands End 5 pocket, natural, relaxed and stretch denim from Lands End Direct Merchants, no exceptions, no hassle.
- cotton: Insulation includes recycled newspaper, wood, and cotton denim jeans the latter a de rigueur item of clothing among the student community.
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