blue jeans
See also: bluejeans and blue-jeans
English
Noun
blue jeans pl (normally plural, singular blue jean)
- A pair of trousers made from denim cotton and dyed dark blue.
- 1964, “The House of the Rising Sun”, performed by The Animals:
- My mother was a tailor / She sewed my new blue jeans / My father was a gamblin' man / Down in New Orleans
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Descendants
- → French: bluejean
- → Romanian: blugi
- → Spanish: bluyín
Translations
denim trousers — See also translations at jeans
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Further reading
- jeans on Wikipedia.Wikipedia