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.
例文
1. Leather jeans that are too big will make you look larger.
だぶだぶのパンツは体が大きく見えます。
2.His mother looked ten years younger in jeans and flats.
彼のお母さんはジーンズと平靴をはいて、10歳若く見えました。
3.He peered at me like I 'd just puked up on his jeans .
彼は私を見ていて、まるで私が彼のジーンズに吐いたかのようだ。
4.Nicole loves wearing her diamonds,even with jeans and a white T-shirt.
ニコルはジーンズと白のTシャツを着ていても、ダイヤモンドのアクセサリーを身につけるのが好きだ。
5.I rigged myself out in thick jeans and heavy belt.