"dungarees"

[Alice Faber]

Mark Mandel wrote:
> Good heavens! AFAIR I've always known the word "dungarees", possibly before
> I knew them as jeans. (Grew up in the 50s in the NYC suburbs.)
>

Likewise. Even though my parents probably would have called them "blue
jeans" at the time (not just "jeans"), I do remember thinking of
"dungarees" as a more old-fashioned term than "jeans".


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