Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
jasmine . - noun Inheraldry, the tincture white or argent in blazoning by the system of flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Same as
jasmine .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Variant of
jasmine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea
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Examples
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They have also the sweet smell of the rose and the jessamine, which is a little flower, but the sweetest of all others; and there is not any flower to be found that is rare and exquisite in that country which is not in that wilderness, to delight the senses of those mortified hermits.
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I used to tell you it was the jessamine; the jessamine is a simpleton, I tell you.
Rita Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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The babe dressed in the white garment that gave thee the jessamine is a fragrance of the fragrances of God, reared through His love, a sign of His signs and a breeze of His breezes.
Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882
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Moreover in this garden were all manner of other fruits and sweet-scented herbs and plants and fragrant flowers, such as jessamine and henna and water-lilies407 and spikenard 408 and roses of every kind and plantain409 and myrtle and so forth; and indeed it was without compare, seeming as it were a piece of Paradise to whoso beheld it.
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My heart warms under snow; flowers with forsythia, japonica blooms, flowering quince, bridal wreath, blood root and violet; yellow running jasmine vine, cape jessamine and saucer magnolias: tulip-shaped, scenting lemon musk upon the air.
Archive 2009-04-01 ____Maggie 2009
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My heart warms under snow; flowers with forsythia, japonica blooms, flowering quince, bridal wreath, blood root and violet; yellow running jasmine vine, cape jessamine and saucer magnolias: tulip-shaped, scenting lemon musk upon the air.
Mississippi Voices (copy) ____Maggie 2009
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First they were cleaned, the brass scoured with wood-ash until it shone pale gold, the silver made bright, the brushes and dusting-cloths washed, cupboards turned out, everything washed again in running water and dried sun; then prayers were said for the household tools, and marigold flowers and jessamine were put on the shelves.
Housekeeping in India Linda 2009
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First they were cleaned, the brass scoured with wood-ash until it shone pale gold, the silver made bright, the brushes and dusting-cloths washed, cupboards turned out, everything washed again in running water and dried sun; then prayers were said for the household tools, and marigold flowers and jessamine were put on the shelves.
Archive 2009-07-01 Linda 2009
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A couple of houses down is a smaller, though simply charming home with blooming Carolina jessamine along the porch.
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In doing so I held it within a few inches of my eyes, and was conscious of a faint smell of the scent known as white jessamine.
ruzuzu commented on the word jessamine
"2. In heraldry, the tincture white or argent in blazoning by the system of flowers." --Cent. Dict.
September 21, 2011