[uncountableU]TIM a type of strong cotton cloth used especially to make jeans 〔尤用于制作牛仔裤的〕粗斜棉布,劳动布
Examples from the Corpus
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.
Origindenim
(1600-1700)French(serge) de Nîmes“(type of cloth) from Nîmes”, French city where it was first made