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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



... 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

... become so, must be assumed as successfully as our talents in that direction would permit. As for the crew, they had by Ryan's orders discarded their usual clothing for jumpers and trousers of blue dungaree, with soft felt hats, cloth caps, or knitted worsted nightcaps by way of head-covering, so that, viewed through a telescope, we might present as slovenly and un-man-o'-war-like an appearance as possible. This effect ...
— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood

... in her native mood. He saw before him the true child of the prairie such as she really was. She was clad in a blue dungaree habit and straw sun-hat, and he marveled at the ravishing picture she made. He raised himself upon his elbow and stared at her, and a sensation of delight swept over him as he devoured each detail of face and figure. Then, suddenly, he was recalled to his senses by the abrupt ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum



Words linked to "Dungaree" :   material, textile, denim, jean, fabric, cloth



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