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Jacks in the green

Jacks in the green is the plural of Jack in the green.

Meaning of Jack in the green

Noun

Jack in the green (plural Jacks in the green)

  1. (historical) A person who wore a pyramidal or conical wicker or wooden framework decorated with foliage, as part of May Day processions in England.
    • Mr Merdle took down a countess who was secluded somewhere in the core of an immense dress, to which she was in the proportion of the heart to the overgrown cabbage. If so low a simile may be admitted, the dress went down the staircase like a richly brocaded Jack in the Green, and nobody knew what...1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC

Questions about Jacks in the green

What is Jacks in the green the plural of?
Jacks in the green is the plural of Jack in the green.

Words near Jacks in the green in the dictionary

  1. jackrolls
  2. jacks
  3. jacks around
  4. Jacks Creek
  5. jacks in
  6. Jacks in the green
  7. jacks into
  8. jacks it
  9. Jacks o' the clock
  10. jacks of all trades
  11. jacks of all trades, masters of none

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