Jean
[dʒiːn]
Definition
(noun.) (usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear.
Checker: Roderick--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A twilled cotton cloth.
Typist: Nelly
Definition
n. a twilled cotton cloth.—n. Jeanette′ coarse jean for lining.—Satin jean a smooth glossy hard-twilled cotton goods.
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Examples
- It was built by Jean Sans-Peur, Duke of Burgundy, to set his conscience at rest--he had assassinated the Duke of Orleans. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Jean-Jacques is in fact a supreme case--perhaps even a slight caricature--of the way in which formal creeds bolster up passionate wants. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In 1631 Jean Rey just inverted this contrivance, filling the bulb with water. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I wonder what always makes you so mighty testy à l'endroit du gros Jean? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Jean Baptiste's clock tolled nine. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Montaigne is not more free and flowing, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is scarcely more graphic; neither does Bossuet excel him in poetical power. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- That surely was _you_ we met in the narrow old Rue St. Jean? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His letters to Galileo, Jean Rey, Hobbes, Des cartes, Gassendi, not to mention other scientists and philoso phers, constitute an encyclopedia of the learning of the time. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The ship Jean Bart before starting on a voyage took on board five hundred lit ers of wine, half of which had been heated under Pasteur's directions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But the brother of one of the secretaries of the Republican Embassy at Paris made a trip to St Jean de Luz last week to meet people from Burgos. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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