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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The jasmine.
- n. 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.
Examples
“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)
“Wi'that she gid me a beautiful spreg o 'jessamy, jist”
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire
“I'd rather zitin tha poorch, wi 'tha jessamy ranglin roun it, and hire”
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire
“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.”
“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.
“Fancy a Boston publisher going about his business tricked up in this dandified dress -- a true New England jessamy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jessamy’.
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from phrontistery.info
jabberwock, jabot, jacent, jacinthe, jack, jackanapes, jack-block, jackstaff, jackstay, jackyard, jacobin, jaconet and 137 more...
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Archaic Colours
Words for colours that have fallen out of use.
aeneous, croceate, cretaceous, cramoisy, corbeau, coquelicot, coccineous, claret, cinerious, chrysochlorous, chlorochrous, cesious and 128 more...
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Gems from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulg...
Citation: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, unabridged from the original 1811 edition, with a foreword by Max Harris. London: Bibliophile Books, 1984.
Original title page: A Dictio...tuzzy-muzzy, half seas over, hugger mugger, hugotontheonbiqui..., doodle sack, juniper lecture, kate, kent street eject..., jack ketch, davy, abel-wackets, three-legged mare and 370 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Better alternatives for common words.
ex cathedra, screed, de rigueur, palpable, wheedle, piebald, incongruity, cassandra, xantippe, ebullient, exuberant, fainéant and 178 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Theodora's
aurulent, heliotrope, wheaten, viridian, umber, titian, saffron, sable, smaragdine, ponceau, prasinous, coquelicot and 23 more...
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amaranth, anther, apothecary, birch, bloom, bramble, briar, cedar, clove, currant, thorn, thicket and 63 more...
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ragnvaeig's Words
incarnadine, percolation, simulacrum, promethean, enchiridion, lugubriousness, adamantine, verisimilitude, cumulonimbus, silvern, sophister, hex and 50 more...
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ragnvaeig yellow like a jasmine Feb 2, 2009