Meaning of jeansy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling or characteristic of jeans.
   informal
2. Wearing jeans.
   informal

Examples

“What would be a lovely bank of white and pink roses just north of Mallett's are so laden with dust from the grist-mill road that the white roses look a rusty yellow, pink ones a jeansy brown.”

“And, also on State Street, Off Limits, specializing in inexpensive, jeansy clothes opened in the space over Jason’s Sandwich and Ice Cream Cafe.”

“And grey – in particular grey flannel, which in Episode Sport’s autumn collection takes on a soft yet durable, jeansy feel (with masculine overtones).”

“I can’t remember exactly what [Colin] Firth was wearing on that first meeting: something dark and jeansy, in a sort of sixth-form teacher way.”

“Along the yellow, frozen bank, twenty-five or thirty feet high, with its narrow sloping beach to the water, a jeansy string of rustics are squatting on their haunches, absorbing all the sunshine they can, and watching the dragging operations with stolid faces.”

“And the clientele was traditional too: some jeansy young folks playing pool and the electronic game, some polyestered older folks sitting quietly along the bar or at the red-check tables in the small room next to the bar.”

“There are the tuneful ladies of the choir making their way along in two’s and three’s, and jeansy youngsters with their eye on the Royal Shakespeare Company turning up for auditions and rehearsals with the Drama Group.”

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