jeans

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1. Genoa (意大利城市热那亚，其古法语拼写形式为：Janne / Jannes, 中期法语又音变为： jean / Jean) => Gene => gen- => 音变：jean.
2. 因该城市最先生产这种斜纹布而得名。
3. jean => 复数：jeans.

jeans 牛仔裤

来自中古法语jean fustian,热那亚厚棉布，来自古法语Jannes,即意大利城市Genoa.

jeans: jeans: [19] Jeans of the sort we would recognize today – close-fitting working trousers made of hard-wearing, typically blue cloth – emerged in America in the mid-19th century. But their antecedents have to be sought in a far distant place. The first known reference to trousers called jeans actually comes from mid-19thcentury England: ‘Septimus arrived flourishin’ his cambric, with his white jeans strapped under his chammy leather opera boots’, R S Surtees, Handley Cross 1843.

Why the name jeans? Because they were made of jean, a sort of tough twilled cotton cloth. This was short for jean fustian, a term first introduced into English in the mid-16th century, in which the jean represented a modification of Janne, the Old French name of the Italian city of Genoa. So jean fustian was ‘cotton fabric from Genoa’, so named because that was where it was first made.
jeans (n.): see jean.

1. Leather jeans that are too big will make you look larger.: 过于肥大的皮裤会让你看起来块头更大。

2. His mother looked ten years younger in jeans and flats.: 他妈妈穿上牛仔裤和平跟鞋，看上去年轻了10岁。

3. He peered at me like I'd just puked up on his jeans.: 他打量着我，好像我刚刚吐在了他的牛仔裤上似的。

4. Nicole loves wearing her diamonds, even with jeans and a white T-shirt.: 妮科尔很喜欢戴她的钻石首饰，即使穿的是牛仔裤和白色T恤衫。