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jambees

jambees is the plural of jambee.

Meaning of jambee

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

Questions about jambees

What is jambees the plural of?
Jambees is the plural of jambee.

Words near jambees in the dictionary

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

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