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n. - A coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric; (usually plural) close-fitting pants of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear.

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  • What he had plainly fixed in his mind was the man called jean Brissault.
  • He had picked three names - three from many locked in childhood 'There was this guy called jean and adolescent memory.
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  • You must have the skinny "gene" (part of a cell which determines hereditary traits) to wear tight "jeans" (pants mad of a kind of cotton cloth) well.
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