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Dungaree   Listen
noun
Dungaree  n.  
1.
A coarse kind of unbleached cotton fabric; blue denim. (Written also dungari) (India)
2.
pl. Trousers, overalls or similar work clothes made of blue denim.
3.
pl. Same as blue jeans.





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"Dungaree" Quotes from Famous Books



... the conversation, wriggling himself backwards and with a sudden yap out of Tilda's clutch. Boy and girl turned, and beheld him rush towards a tall, loose-kneed man, clad in dirty dungaree, dark-haired and dark-avised with coal-dust, who came ...
— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... they made the thick rope fast round the mizzen lower masthead, the bo'sun still brisk and cheerful after the terrible night which he had spent in the rigging, his only covering a pair of torn dungaree trousers. ...
— The Moving Finger • Mary Gaunt
... the Hawaiian cowboys, the sleeper was larger. Also, as his snow-white hair and beard attested, he was much older. The thickness of his wrist and the greatness of his fingers made authentic the mighty frame of him hidden under loose dungaree pants and cotton shirt, buttonless, open from midriff to Adam's apple, exposing a chest matted with a thatch of hair as white as that of his head and face. The depth and breadth of that chest, its resilience, and its relaxed and plastic muscles, tokened the ...
— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London
... it might clear off soon. He shook his head as he held out his brown hand for a stiff tot of Hollands, tossed it off, and then sat down to open a small bundle he carried, and which contained a dry jumper and pair of dungaree pants. ...
— "Martin Of Nitendi"; and The River Of Dreams - 1901 • Louis Becke
... to supply the deficiency by the lining of that very ancient anonymous cloak, which did the red, while a bandanna handkerchief of the Captain's furnished the yellow, to the sailmaker's immense amusement. On him I bestowed the blue outside of the cloak for a pair of dungaree trowsers, and in signalling now it is, 'up go 2.41, and my ...
— Letters from the Cape • Lady Duff Gordon


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