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jambee

jambee noun: a light walking cane that was fashionable in the eighteenth century. It apparently came from the Calamus plants.

Noun

jambee (plural jambees)

  1. (obsolete) A light walking cane that was fashionable in the eighteenth century. It apparently came from the Calamus plants.
    • This Virtuoso has a parcel of Jambees now growing in the East-Indies, where he keeps a man on purpose to look after them1709-1711, The Tatler

Forms of jambee

pluraljambees

Origin of jambee

See jamb. Compare Old French jamboier (“to walk”).

Questions about jambee

What does jambee mean?
Jambee means a light walking cane that was fashionable in the eighteenth century. It apparently came from the Calamus plants.
What part of speech is jambee?
Jambee is a noun.
What is the plural of jambee?
The plural of jambee is jambees.

Words near jambee in the dictionary

  1. jambe
  2. jambeau
  3. jambeaus
  4. jambeaux
  5. jambed
  6. jambee
  7. jambees
  8. jamber
  9. Jamberoo
  10. jambers
  11. jambes

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