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chinoed en · ADJ

Etymology

From chino + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Wearing chinos.
    • They stopped singing and watched three sunburnt faces appear, followed by three T-shirted chests, and six chinoed legs. 1981, Lisa Alther, Original Sins, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 289:
    • […]she has remained successful and beloved for the last half century, collecting a Lifetime Award Grammy, an honorary doctorate from Harvard and the icon’s prerogative to appear—regally chinoed—in a Gap ad. 2001, Gerri Hirshey, “Mothers of Invention”, in We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 35:
    • I settled on the boy who stood up in superhero stance, hands on his girlish chinoed hips. 2018, Koren Zailckas, The Drama Teacher, Crown, →ISBN: