dungaree

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Hindi डूंगरी (ḍūṅgrī, “coarse calico”), from the name of a village.

Yank is in his dirty dungarees. — The Hairy Ape, Eugene O'Neill
Crates lined up on the quayside at Jaffa, chap ticking them off in a book, navvies handling them barefoot in soiled dungarees. — Ulysses, James Joyce
But the Orpheus was in faded blue dungarees, and played a fiddle, and leaned against a rusty, red capstan--saw it from the jib-boom of the Mjolna[2]--fishing bonita--looked back, and there they all were, the same to-day as they were in olden days, I expect, men and boys, salt and sun-bitten sea-farers, lolling on the cat-heads and anchors. — From Edinburgh to India & Burmah, W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch

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