Jeans comes from Genes, the Old French name for Genoa, Italy, where sturdy cotton fabric was produced for sailors' trousers.
Durable trousers made from denim or other cotton fabric.
From Genes, the Old French name for the Italian city of Genoa, where a sturdy cotton-linen fabric called jean was produced. Genoese sailors wore trousers of this material. The word denim has a parallel geographic origin, from serge de Nîmes (fabric from Nîmes, France). Jeans and denim thus carry two