jessamy

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) Emily Sarah Holt 1864

Wi'that she gid me a beautiful spreg o 'jessamy, jist

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

I'd rather zitin tha poorch, wi 'tha jessamy ranglin roun it, and hire

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

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.

Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. George Brannon

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. Various

Fancy a Boston publisher going about his business tricked up in this dandified dress -- a true New England jessamy.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881