DENILIQUIN

deniliquin, a municipal town of townsend county, new south wales, australia, 534 m. direct s.w. of sydney, and 195 m. by rail n. of melbourne. pop. (1901) 2644. the business of the town is chiefly connected with the interests of the sheep and cattle farmers of the riverina district, a plain country, in the main pastoral, but suited in some parts for cultivation. deniliquin has a well-known public school. denim (an abbreviation of _serge de nimes_), the name originally given to a kind of serge. it is now applied to a stout twilled cloth made in various colours, usually of cotton, and used for overalls, &c.