Lexicographical Neighbors of Jessamies
Literary usage of Jessamies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Times: A Picture of Social Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century by John Ashton (1885)
"These jessamies were, like the modern Mashers, effeminate, and comparatively ...
The jessamies, however, were only one class among the youth of the time, ..."
2. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1900)
"... throw the ladies into confusion, and give the jessamies a chance of tittering
to show their teeth." As a consequence not one of the many plays written ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"Jennies and jessamies; and passion the play of schoolboys and schoolgirls,
scribbling valentines and interchanging lollipops ? Is life all over when Jenny ..."
4. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1865)
"... jessamies, &c. at a Nocturnal Meeting in Petticoat Lane. Lond. 1761, 8vo.
Occasional Verses on the death of Mr. Sterne. To which is added an Epistle to ..."
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