"Jeames" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), English novelist, used this name for The Yellowplush Papers (1837-8), a series of sketches in Fraser's Magazine purportedly written by a London West End footman named Charles James Yellowplush. The name itself was suggested by a domestic servant in the Thackeray household, \"a bona fide manservant, an old gentleman named John Goldsworthy, formerly the Larkbeare footman, who wore faded knee-breeches in the family livery\" [D.J. Taylor, Thackeray, 1999]. Plush was a fabric traditionally used for footmen's wear, and especially for their brightly-colored breeches. The same character appeared with a \"gentrified\" form of his name in The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche (1846), and his popularity caused \"Jeames\" (an affected form of \"James\") to be used for a time as a generic name for a footman.",
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    {
      "form": "Jeameses",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A footman; a flunky."
      ],
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          "flunky"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, dated) A footman; a flunky."
      ],
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        "dated",
        "slang"
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    }
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  "word": "Jeames"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), English novelist, used this name for The Yellowplush Papers (1837-8), a series of sketches in Fraser's Magazine purportedly written by a London West End footman named Charles James Yellowplush. The name itself was suggested by a domestic servant in the Thackeray household, \"a bona fide manservant, an old gentleman named John Goldsworthy, formerly the Larkbeare footman, who wore faded knee-breeches in the family livery\" [D.J. Taylor, Thackeray, 1999]. Plush was a fabric traditionally used for footmen's wear, and especially for their brightly-colored breeches. The same character appeared with a \"gentrified\" form of his name in The Diary of C. Jeames de la Pluche (1846), and his popularity caused \"Jeames\" (an affected form of \"James\") to be used for a time as a generic name for a footman.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Jeameses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A footman; a flunky."
      ],
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          "footman"
        ],
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          "flunky",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, dated) A footman; a flunky."
      ],
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        "dated",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Jeames"
}