"jambee" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: jambees [plural]
Etymology: See jamb. Compare Old French jamboier (“to walk”). Etymology templates: {{cog|fro|jamboier||to walk}} Old French jamboier (“to walk”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} jambee (plural jambees)
  1. (obsolete) A light walking cane that was fashionable in the eighteenth century. It apparently came from the Calamus plants. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-jambee-en-noun-9XjOUmuB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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          "text": "1709-1711, The Tatler\nThis Virtuoso has a parcel of Jambees now growing in the East-Indies, where he keeps a man on purpose to look after them"
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