"dungarees"

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:39 AM -0500 2/3/09, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>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.
>
Genoa.  And then there's "Nîmes" for "denim".

LH

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