chino
A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniformsA coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.
» There was a time when American teenagers thought nothing was cooler than wearing the Gap’s chino pants and branded sweatshirts.
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1 senses(countable, uncountable)A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.
a coarse twilled cotton fabric frequently used for uniforms
Examples
2 sentencesThere was a time when American teenagers thought nothing was cooler than wearing the Gap’s chino pants and branded sweatshirts.
The Los Angeles area in California continues to hit record high temperatures, such as 48.9 degrees Celsius in the city of Chino.
Origin
A term used by American veterans of the Spanish-American war. It is theorized that the cloA term used by American veterans of the Spanish-American war. It is theorized that the cloth or the trousers were made in China.
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Forms
plural: chinosWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.