Lexicographical Neighbors of Jauntee
Literary usage of Jauntee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"FABLE XVL A BAG-WIG of a jauntee air. Trick'd up with all a barber's care, leaded
with powder and perfume, ..."
2. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1845)
"His jauntee air—his bullying swagger—his nods and winks to invite confidence—his
affected scrupulousness as to his company—his continual apprehension of ..."
3. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1827)
"... a jauntee-car, as any in the world." Here then was I again liable to be
perplexed with that confounded identity of names in the New and Old World. ..."
4. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Smart, quoted by R., writes it as an English word, but spells it jauntee; so does
Fielding. Turn you about upon your heel with a jante air, hum out the end ..."
5. The Modern British Drama: In Five Volumes by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1811)
"... in watching at the door of your box at the playhouse, for your hand to your
chair; or his jauntee way of playing with your fan ; or was it the gunpowder ..."
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