Lexicographical Neighbors of Jillet
Literary usage of Jillet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated (1870)
"Jackson and jillet were good friends until they became neighbors ; but now ...
Jackson has his blinds newly painted—jillet does the same ; Jackson has a new ..."
2. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1907)
"... David Jennings, Chester jillet, and Thomas Lambert, were not, nor was any or
either of them to be found within his said District; and that he could not, ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"'A jillet brak his heart at last;' Burns, On Scotch Bard, Gone to the \V. Indies
... [t] jillet for Jill was probably suggested by the similar word gight or ..."
4. The Poems of William Dunbar: Now First Collected. With Notes, and a Memoir by William Dunbar (1834)
"jillet is still applied to a young giddy girl. Burns, in some verses written in
the prospect of his setting out for the West Indies, says of himself, ..."
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