jambee

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English

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Etymology

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See jamb. Compare Old French jamboier (to walk).

Noun

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jambee (plural jambees)

  1. (obsolete) A light walking cane that was fashionable in the eighteenth century. It apparently came from the Calamus plants.
    • 1709-1711, The Tatler
      This Virtuoso has a parcel of Jambees now growing in the East-Indies, where he keeps a man on purpose to look after them

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