denim: [17] The name of the fabric from which jeans are made had its origins in a sort of serge produced in the southern French town of N?mes. The French naturally enough called it serge de N?mes, but the original meaning of this soon became lost when English borrowed it as serge de Nim, and the last two words came to be run together as denim.
denim (n.)
1690s, from French serge de N?mes "serge from N?mes," 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."
例文
1. He has on a denim shirt with a T-shirt underneath.
彼はデニムシャツを着ていて、その中にTシャツがセットされています。
2.Jeans，the all-purpose denim trousers，have been around for over a hundred years.
ジーンズ。このような様々な用途に適したデニムパンツは、100年以上の歴史がある。
3.Dennis was dressed in denim jeans.
デニスは労働布ジーンズをはいていた。
4.She wore pale blue denim shorts and a white denim work shirt.