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Definition of Jambee
1. n. A fashionable cane.
Definition of Jambee
1. Noun. (obsolete) A light, fashionable walking-cane of the eighteenth century. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jambee
1. a light cane [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jambee
Literary usage of Jambee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Sumatra: Containing an Account of the Government, Laws by William Marsden (1784)
"... Siak, jambee, and even Palembang, with which it is faid to have connexion, by
means of a lake, that gives fource to the two laft, as well as to the ..."
2. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1855)
"And thereupon he wrote to the Sultan of jambee, as he says, thus, (page 204:) to
the Lord Sultan, who rules over the Empire of jambee. ..."
3. The East Indian Gazetteer: Containing Particular Descriptions of the Empires by Walter Hamilton (1828)
"jambee.—A district on the northeastern coast of Sumatra, extending along a ...
At the town of jambee the surface is only twenty feet above the level of the ..."
4. 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)
"... thatt wee. pretended to send a shipp for jambee, to settle there a factorie,
they to encounter us in the action dispatched a pinnace into the ..."
5. Cases Argued and Decreed in the High Court of Chancery [1660-1697]. by Great Britain Court of Chancery (1828)
"Bantam factory and counsel placed the defendant chief factor at jambee, who acts
in that service six years, and then gave his account to the factory at ..."
6. Letters Received by the East India Company from Its Servants in the East by East India Company, Frederick Charles Danvers, William Foster (1900)
"Sumatra to a place called jambee, lying up a river (as the master doth suppose)
25 leagues (the river's mouth, whereat the ships come in at, lieth in 40 mi. ..."
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