From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdenimden‧im /ˈdenɪm/ noun [uncountable]TIM a type of strong cotton cloth used especially to make jeans
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denim• And his clothes were new too, a denim suit with very tight trousers and pointed boots.• Compression heats the air inside and ignites charred denim in the hollowed-out point.• The all-important jeans are either stone-washed or dark denim for fall.• An elderly woman dressed in denim.• He was wearing disreputable-looking denim bermudas.• Mitchell inhaled the laundered fragrance of her skirt, felt the pack of muscles on her thighs beneath the denim.• He was wearing denim jeans and a denim jacket.Origin denim (1600-1700) French (serge) de Nîmes “(type of cloth) from Nîmes”, French city where it was first made 