jeaned

English

Etymology

jean + -ed

Adjective

jeaned (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly in combination) Wearing jeans.
    a tight-jeaned girl
    a blue-jeaned man
    • 1902, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Sport of the Gods, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., Chapter 15, pp. 212-213,
      Is there no way to prove to them that woollen-shirted, brown-jeaned simplicity is infinitely better than broad-clothed degradation?
    • 1937, Frederic Franklyn Van de Water, A Home in the Country, Chapter Eight, p. 153,
      It is the merry jest of visiting urbanites to hail the blue-jeaned farmer as “Hiram” and ask with grotesque nasal whining after the welfare of his crops.
    • 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson, Chapter 79,
      The audience was made up almost entirely of international youth, bearded and jeaned and unwashed.
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