Well attestedNamed for a product of the place
jeans
noun · first attested 16th century
The trousers point to Genoa, not to the American West.
Trousers of heavy twill, especially denim.
Record
- Relationship
- Named for a product of the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 16th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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- Step 1
Genoa
- Step 2
Gênes
- Step 3
bleu de Gênes
- In English
jeans
The English word comes by way of French Gênes, the name for Genoa. Sailors and workers there were associated with a heavy cotton cloth that later became jeans.
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