Trade, money & lettersEveryday life

dungaree

Dungaree was a coarse, cheap Indian cotton named after Dongri, a hill quarter of Bombay where it was sold; sailors wore it, its name went to the work trousers made from it, and American workers' blue dungarees became the overalls of the world.

Weakest linkProbable

The road to English

From Marathi to Hindi

From English to American English

1600Marathi

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

Export “dungaree”

Embed “dungaree”

Save “dungaree”