"Jack in the green" meaning in English

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      "form": "Jacks in the green",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "Jacks in the green"
      },
      "expansion": "Jack in the green (plural Jacks in the green)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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 sort of small person carried it.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who wore a pyramidal or conical wicker or wooden framework decorated with foliage, as part of May Day processions in England."
      ],
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        [
          "pyramidal",
          "pyramidal"
        ],
        [
          "conical",
          "conical"
        ],
        [
          "wicker",
          "wicker"
        ],
        [
          "wooden",
          "wooden"
        ],
        [
          "framework",
          "framework"
        ],
        [
          "foliage",
          "foliage"
        ],
        [
          "May Day",
          "May Day"
        ],
        [
          "procession",
          "procession"
        ],
        [
          "England",
          "England"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A person who wore a pyramidal or conical wicker or wooden framework decorated with foliage, as part of May Day processions in England."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Jack-in-the-green"
        },
        {
          "word": "Jack o' the Green"
        }
      ],
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        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Jack in the green"
}

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      "form": "Jacks in the green",
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  ],
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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 sort of small person carried it.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who wore a pyramidal or conical wicker or wooden framework decorated with foliage, as part of May Day processions in England."
      ],
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        [
          "pyramidal",
          "pyramidal"
        ],
        [
          "conical",
          "conical"
        ],
        [
          "wicker",
          "wicker"
        ],
        [
          "wooden",
          "wooden"
        ],
        [
          "framework",
          "framework"
        ],
        [
          "foliage",
          "foliage"
        ],
        [
          "May Day",
          "May Day"
        ],
        [
          "procession",
          "procession"
        ],
        [
          "England",
          "England"
        ]
      ],
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        "(historical) A person who wore a pyramidal or conical wicker or wooden framework decorated with foliage, as part of May Day processions in England."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Jack-in-the-green"
    },
    {
      "word": "Jack o' the Green"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Jack in the green"
}