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Definition of Jambees
1. jambee [n] - See also: jambee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jambees
Literary usage of Jambees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tatler by Joseph Addison, Alexander Chalmers, Richard Steele (1822)
"This virtuoso has a parcel of jambees now growing in the East-Indies, where he
keeps a man on purpose to look after them, which will be the finest that ever ..."
2. The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"This Virtuoso has a parcel of jambees now growing in the East-Indies, where he
keeps a man on purpose to look after them, which will be the finest that ever ..."
3. The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617, Describing His Experiences in by John Jourdain, William Revett, Alexander Sharpeigh, William Finch, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Basil Harrington Soulsby (1905)
"... the Kinge of jambees daughter, procured his letter to the Kinge of Jambee,
wherein he wrote by the • instigation of the Dutch that hee understood that ..."
4. A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands & Adjacent Countries by John Crawfurd (1856)
"Small quantities of gold are imported from the mountain region of the interior,
and, as before mentioned, its canes, jambees as they were called, ..."
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