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jeans

Jean was 'Genoa fustian', a cheap, tough cloth that Genoa exported. Trousers made of it became jeans, and Levi Strauss's riveted blue jeans of 1873 — and then Hollywood and rock 'n' roll — took the word around the world, from French and Russian to Hindi, Arabic and Japanese.

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