Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The jasmine.
- noun A dandy: so called, it is said, because it was a habit of fops to wear a sprig of jasmine in their buttonhole.
- Like jasmine in color or perfume.
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Examples
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There were also "jessamy" gloves -- namely, kid gloves perfumed with jessamine; a black velvet mask; a superb painted fan; a box of patches, another of violet powder, another of rouge, and a fourth of pomatum; one of the
The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Wi'that she gid me a beautiful spreg o 'jessamy, jist
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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I'd rather zitin tha poorch, wi 'tha jessamy ranglin roun it, and hire
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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The lodging-houses are of course very numerous, and in every grade, from the humble _jessamy_ or _myrtle_ cottage at 20 or 30 shillings per week, to the lordly mansion at as many guineas.
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Up the side he scrambles, with the help of a side-ladder, all togged out to the nines in a span-new blue jacket and anchor buttons, a cap with a gould band, and white ducks made to fit -- as jemmy-jessamy a looking fellow as you'd see of a cruise along London parks, with the waterman singing out alongside to send down
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various
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Fancy a Boston publisher going about his business tricked up in this dandified dress -- a true New England jessamy.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
ragnvaeig commented on the word jessamy
yellow like a jasmine
February 2, 2009
bilby commented on the word jessamy
Also jemmy jessamy.
August 11, 2021