different between jeans vs corduroy

English

Etymology

Originally a shortened form of jean fustian (from Middle English Gene (“Genoa; Genovese”) + fustian (“strong cotton fabric”). The -s was added to jean under influence from the cognate Old French Jannes (modern French Gênes).

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?nz, IPA^(key): /d??i?nz/
• Rhymes: -i?nz
• Homophone: genes

Noun

jeans pl (plural only)

1. A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.

jeans

1. plural of jean

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:trousers

Derived terms

• blue jeans
• cream in one's jeans

Related terms

• Genoese, Genovese

Descendants

• ? Greek: ???? (tzin)
• ? Hindi: ????? (j?ns)
• ? Irish: jíons

Translations

See also

• ????

Anagrams

• Janes, janes

Dutch

Alternative forms

• jean (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from English jeans.

Pronunciation

Noun

jeans f (plural jeans, diminutive jeansje n)

1. A pair of jeans (denim trousers)
2. (by extension) Any denim garment
3. (invariable) The cotton fabric denim

Synonyms

• (trousers): jeansbroek m, spijkerbroek m

Derived terms

• jeanstint

Related terms

• blue jeans
• Genuees m & adjective

French

Pronunciation

Noun

jeans m

1. plural of jean

Italian

Etymology

From English jeans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??ins/

Noun

jeans m pl (plural only)

1. jeans (trousers)

   Hypernym: pantaloni

References

• jeans in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English jeans.

Noun

jeans m pl

1. (Jersey) jeans

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English jeans.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?d???s/

Noun

jeans m (uncountable)

1. (Brazil) denim (type of textile)

   Synonym: ganga

Noun

jeans m pl or m (in variation) (plural only)

1. jeans (denim trousers)

   Synonym: calças de ganga

Adjective

jeans (plural jeans, not comparable)

1. (Brazil) made of denim

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English jeans.

Pronunciation

Noun

jeans m (plural jeans)

1. jeans (trousers)

   Synonym: pantalones vaqueros

Usage notes

Spelling proscribed as an anglicism; the spelling yin or yines is preferred.

References

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Probably from cord +? duroy (“name of a 17th century coarse fabric made in England”). Probably not from French *corde du roi (“cloth of the king”), which is unattested in French, where the term for the "cloth of the king" was velours côtelé. Possibly from cordesoy (“corde de soie”), or "rope of silk or silk-like fabric" in French), named for example in a 1756 advertisement for clothing fabrics; see Wikipedia article, and comparable in language form to the contemporary serg(e)dusoys (“silk serge”), see Serge (fabric).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??d????/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??d????/

Noun

corduroy (countable and uncountable, plural corduroys)

1. A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.
2. (obsolete, Ireland, slang) Cheap and poor-quality whiskey.
3. A pattern on snow resulting from the use of a snow groomer to pack snow and improve skiing, snowboarding and snowmobile trail conditions. Corduroy is widely regarded as a good surface on which to ski or ride.

Derived terms

• (heavy fabric): corduroys, corduroy road

Related terms

• (cheap whiskey): kill-the-beggar

Translations

Verb

corduroy (third-person singular simple present corduroys, present participle corduroying, simple past and past participle corduroyed)

1. To make (a road) by laying down split logs or tree-trunks over a marsh, swamp etc.
   • 1886, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, chapter 53

     The night was very dark and it rained heavily, the roads were so bad that the troops had to cut trees and corduroy the road a part of the way, to get through.

   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, pp. 827-8:

     But Sherman organized “pioneer battalions” of soldiers and freedmen […] to cut saplings and trees to corduroy the roads, build bridges, and construct causeways.

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