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Date: 1600-1700
Origin: Probably from French darner

darn

3 verb
     
Related topics: Clothes and Fashion
darn3 [transitive]
DC to repair a hole in a piece of clothing by stitching wool over it:
Her cardigan had been darned at the elbows.
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