Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A light cane carried by men of fashion in England in the eighteenth century.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A fashionable cane.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A light, fashionable walking-cane of the eighteenth century.

Etymologies

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See jamb. Compare Old French jamboier to walk.

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