Definitions

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  • noun Alternative spelling of jubé.
  • noun An open drainage channel of a type common in Tehran.
  • noun A type of gelatine-based confection; ingredients and consistency vary between countries.

Etymologies

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French jubé.

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From jujube, from Ancient Greek ζίζυφον (zizuphon).

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Examples

  • In France the rood-loft was called the jube, which seems to imply that it was used liturgically for the reading of lessons and the like.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Strawberry, lemon and orange cupcakes topped with strawberry, lemon and orange swiss meringue buttercream, then sprinkled with coloured sugar crystals and topped with a jube.

    The Red Deer thereddeer 2009

  • I wanted the top of the cupcakes to look like a jube so I went a little big crazy with the coloured sugar crystals - they would of looked better if I didn't rush spreading on the swiss meringue buttercream.

    The Red Deer thereddeer 2009

  • Strawberry, lemon and orange cupcakes topped with strawberry, lemon and orange swiss meringue buttercream, then sprinkled with coloured sugar crystals and topped with a jube.

    Archive 2009-07-01 thereddeer 2009

  • I wanted the top of the cupcakes to look like a jube so I went a little big crazy with the coloured sugar crystals - they would of looked better if I didn't rush spreading on the swiss meringue buttercream.

    Archive 2009-07-01 thereddeer 2009

  • We had a red fruit 'popsicle': kind of frozen air on a stick; a blackcurrant jelly like the best jube you've ever tasted and a salt & vinegar chocolate stick.

    Desserts of the Future Niki 2007

  • Oli selline jube žanr Nõukogude Liidus, kus raevuka huumoriga mõisteti hukka kapitalisliku või mõne teise inimvaenuliku ühikonnakorralduse pahesid... ja seeläbi loomulikult ka ühiskonnakorraldust ennastki.

    V. Fadin «Изопертиловая лихорадка» Ulmeguru 2007

  • Impera quidvis; navigare jube, navem conscendo; plagas accipere, plector; animum profundere, in ignem currere, non recuso, lubens facio.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • We had a red fruit 'popsicle': kind of frozen air on a stick; a blackcurrant jelly like the best jube you've ever tasted and a salt & vinegar chocolate stick.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Niki 2007

  • He was of another mind who cried, “Da, Domine, quod jubes, et jube quod vis.”

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

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  • <blockquote>The town was strung out along the irrigation canal, called a 'jube' (rhymes with 'tube'). The jube was more than just a source of irrigation water; it was also where the livestock came to drink, where women came to do laundry and wash dishes, and where people gathered to gossip or to pick up prostitutes, who were nicknamed 'jube queens' for their habit of sitting alongside the jube and dangling their feet in the water while waiting for customers.</blockquote>

    Dr. Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson, Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), p. 9. (The town was Hasanlu, Iran, in 1964.)

    November 1, 2015