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Jersey

2 stages from English to English.

Today it means a soft knitted fabric, or a garment made from it, especially a sports shirt
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Jersey
English · 1800s
"the island of Jersey"
the Channel Island famous for its knitted woolen garments
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jersey
English · 1850s
"a knitted garment, or its fabric"
settled as the word for the close-fitting knitted garment
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