Origin: 1600-1700 French (serge) de Nîmes (type of cloth) from Nîmes, French city where it was first made
1 [uncountable] a type of strong cotton cloth, used especially to make jeans2denims [plural] old-fashioned a pair of pants made from denimSYN jeans [Origin: 1600–1700 French (serge) de Nîmes (type of cloth) from Nîmes, French city where it was first made]