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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
denim
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a leather/denim/linen etc jacket
▪ a suede jacket
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
blue
▪ He was wearing a white zip-up jacket, blue denim jeans and training shoes.
▪ Young and slim, dressed in blue jeans and denim jacket, the man worked the Dancing Fly.
▪ It was followed by a slim body and long legs, clad in light blue denim with scuffs, tears and patches.
▪ She wore a blue denim skirt on the knee and a striped shirt with the collar turned up.
▪ But Paula, dressed in light grey leggings, sweatshirt and a blue denim jacket, looks as cool as a cucumber.
■ NOUN
jacket
▪ He was wearing denim jeans and a denim jacket.
▪ The buttons on her denim jacket were cold.
▪ Young and slim, dressed in blue jeans and denim jacket, the man worked the Dancing Fly.
▪ Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel.
▪ Kate borrowed his denim jacket, which she draped across her shoulders.
▪ It was gone midnight, cold and autumnal, and they shivered in their denim jackets.
▪ He wears denim jackets - with the collar up! - and sunglasses.
▪ But Paula, dressed in light grey leggings, sweatshirt and a blue denim jacket, looks as cool as a cucumber.
jeans
▪ He was wearing a white zip-up jacket, blue denim jeans and training shoes.
▪ The Chicago 7 put on its denim jeans on Sunday but this time around they had to wear the relaxed fit.
▪ He was wearing denim jeans and a denim jacket.
▪ The other man had brown hair and a wispy moustache and wore faded denim jeans and a grey woollen jumper.
▪ He dressed quickly in faded denim jeans and a black T-shirt and sat opposite her at the little mahogany table.
shirt
▪ Like her, he was dressed in jeans, and a denim shirt.
▪ Jessica had deliberately gone the other way - she wore old jeans and a denim shirt and scuffed brown flatties.
■ VERB
wear
▪ He was wearing disreputable-looking denim bermudas.
▪ The other man had brown hair and a wispy moustache and wore faded denim jeans and a grey woollen jumper.
▪ He has long hair and wears denim.
▪ She wore a blue denim skirt on the knee and a striped shirt with the collar turned up.
▪ He wears denim jackets - with the collar up! - and sunglasses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An elderly woman dressed in denim.
▪ And his clothes were new too, a denim suit with very tight trousers and pointed boots.
▪ Compression heats the air inside and ignites charred denim in the hollowed-out point.
▪ He was wearing denim jeans and a denim jacket.
▪ He was wearing disreputable-looking denim bermudas.
▪ Mitchell inhaled the laundered fragrance of her skirt, felt the pack of muscles on her thighs beneath the denim.
▪ The all-important jeans are either stone-washed or dark denim for fall.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Denim

Denim \Den"im\ (d[e^]n"[i^]m), n. [Of uncertain origin.] A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
denim

1690s, from French serge de Nîmes "serge from Nîmes," town in southern France. Application to "coarse cotton cloth" is first recorded 1850 in American English. Denims "pants made of denim" recorded from 1868. The place name is Roman Nemausus, said to be ultimately from Gaulish nemo "sanctuary."

Wiktionary
denim

n. A textile often made of cotton with a distinct diagonal pattern.

WordNet
denim
  1. n. (usually plural) close-fitting pants of heavy denim for casual wear [syn: jean, blue jean]

  2. a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric [syn: dungaree, jean]

Wikipedia
Denim (disambiguation)

Denim is a kind of cloth. It may also refer to:

  • Denim (band), Lawrence Hayward's musical group
  • Denim Air, a Dutch charter airline
Denim (band)

Denim was a British indie rock band, the brainchild of Lawrence (formerly of Felt), and was based in Birmingham, England.

Denim

Denim is a sturdy cotton warp-faced textile in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads. This twill weaving produces a diagonal ribbing that distinguishes it from cotton duck.

The most common denim is indigo denim, in which the warp thread is dyed, while the weft thread is left white. As a result of the warp-faced twill weaving, one side of the textile is dominated by the blue warp threads and the other side is dominated by the white weft threads. This causes blue jeans to be white on the inside. The indigo dyeing process, in which the core of the warp threads remains white, creates denim's signature fading characteristics.

Usage examples of "denim".

His steps slowed overhead and she found herself listening out for him anxiously as she hurried to her own bedroom, showered and scrambled into a simple scoop-neck T-shirt and denim button-through skirt, dragging aquick brush through her hair.

Today, wearing jeans, a red plaid flannel shirt, and a denim jacket, Bender was no more formally dressed than yesterday.

Strolling out onto the concourse of North Pines Mall in cowhide boots and a blue denim jacket, his hair tied back in a sausage-thick ponytail.

He wore cowhide boots and a blue denim jacket, his hair tied back in a ponytail.

A single truck clattered down the road and a man in blue denim walked toward the creamery carrying a lunch pail, otherwise it was as if he had the whole world to himself.

We were loaded into the elevator, and I saw Pooch come on, cuffed to a grizzled veteran of the penal system, busily picking his nose and scratching at his denim shirt.

Her long red and black dreadlocks whipping behind her, her bare feet dirty, she wore an Indian cotton skirt printed in two shades of brown and a denim halter top.

Blade recognized the scarlet-dyed denims and the red fylfots drawn on each bald head.

After allowing the horse to drink, Cullen left him amiably munching the spindly clumps of grass that grew beneath the feathery manuka and kanuka trees, and climbed down the bank before shedding his boots, dusty denims and finally his battered leather Akubra hat.

The sienna suede jacket, pencil-legged faded denims, and white tank top were too severe for her cameo looks, but as Keri put it, she preferred leather over lace.

His breath caught as Mordell pressed the tip of the blade into the denim.

He smelled of reefer and was too cool to approve of her Saturday work uniform of jeans, denim clogs, and a wacky-colored Oilily sweater over a white T-shirt.

Vulnerable, nearly petrified by a fear Of rejection, she summoned courage and boldly reached out, letting her hand glide down his chest to the waist of his jeans, pausing where bare skin met denim, then drifting on further, down over button and placket and zipper, feeling him under her hand.

Mariella pulls on her sheepskin-lined denim jacket, saddles her bay mare, Twink, and rides at a trot along the dry riverbed.

Mariella tells Twink, who is snuffling at the pockets of her denim jacket.