"dungarees"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/3/2009 09:24 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>Ditto.  I'd forgotten that the default term for us too was indeed
>"blue jeans", with compound stress as in "blueberries" or
>"bluestockings".

Wasn't it "blue jeans" for the upper sorts, "dungarees" for the lower
sorts?  And the picture is of "overalls".

P.S.  Larry, I can't come up with the Italian city.

Joel

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