DENIM


Meaning of DENIM in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a leather/denim/linen etc jacket

a suede jacket

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

blue

He was wearing a white zip-up jacket, blue denim jeans and training shoes.

Young and slim, dressed in blue jeans and denim jacket, the man worked the Dancing Fly.

It was followed by a slim body and long legs, clad in light blue denim with scuffs, tears and patches.

She wore a blue denim skirt on the knee and a striped shirt with the collar turned up.

But Paula, dressed in light grey leggings, sweatshirt and a blue denim jacket, looks as cool as a cucumber.

■ NOUN

jacket

He was wearing denim jeans and a denim jacket .

The buttons on her denim jacket were cold.

Young and slim, dressed in blue jeans and denim jacket , the man worked the Dancing Fly.

Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel.

Kate borrowed his denim jacket , which she draped across her shoulders.

It was gone midnight, cold and autumnal, and they shivered in their denim jackets .

He wears denim jackets - with the collar up! - and sunglasses.

But Paula, dressed in light grey leggings, sweatshirt and a blue denim jacket , looks as cool as a cucumber.

jeans

He was wearing a white zip-up jacket, blue denim jeans and training shoes.

The Chicago 7 put on its denim jeans on Sunday but this time around they had to wear the relaxed fit.

He was wearing denim jeans and a denim jacket.

The other man had brown hair and a wispy moustache and wore faded denim jeans and a grey woollen jumper.

He dressed quickly in faded denim jeans and a black T-shirt and sat opposite her at the little mahogany table.

shirt

Like her, he was dressed in jeans, and a denim shirt .

Jessica had deliberately gone the other way - she wore old jeans and a denim shirt and scuffed brown flatties.

■ VERB

wear

He was wearing disreputable-looking denim bermudas.

The other man had brown hair and a wispy moustache and wore faded denim jeans and a grey woollen jumper.

He has long hair and wears denim .

She wore a blue denim skirt on the knee and a striped shirt with the collar turned up.

He wears denim jackets - with the collar up! - and sunglasses.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An elderly woman dressed in 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.

He was wearing denim jeans and a denim jacket.

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 .

The all-important jeans are either stone-washed or dark denim for fall.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.