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Definition of Jessamine
1. Noun. A climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant white or yellow or red flowers used in perfume and to flavor tea.
Definition of Jessamine
1. n. Same as Jasmine.
Definition of Jessamine
1. Proper noun. (given name female from=English), variant of Jasmine. ¹
2. Noun. Variant of jasmine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jessamine
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Medical Definition of Jessamine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Jessamine
Literary usage of Jessamine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sing the South: Poems by Judd Mortimer Lewis (1905)
"Oh, no! he is still my brother in spite of his golden dross; Him, bound to the
car of Mammon; me, out where the branches toss! 'NEATH jessamine. ..."
2. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"Now, as I these jessamine flowers entwine, A gift for thy fragrant hair, ...
The Common White jessamine is an exceedingly elegant plant for training over a ..."
3. Jackanapes: Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. The Story of a Short Life by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Horatia K. F. Gatty (1887)
"... Nor did Miss jessamine see her loss from the Cobbler's point of view. On the
contrary, Mrs. Johnson said she never to her dying day should forget how, ..."
4. The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward (1882)
"Thus cried the jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth a lie Draw on its
head despair ! Among th<i fragrant spirits of the bowers The boldest and the ..."
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