English citations of Jean
- 1788 Robert Burns, Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blaw:
- There's not a bonnie flower that springs
- By fountain, shaw , or green,
- There's not a bonnie bird that sings
- But minds me o' my Jean.
- 1866 Louisa May Alcott, Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power, Chapter II
- - - - Isn't Jean a pretty name?"
- "Not bad; but why don't you call her Miss Muir?"
- "She begged me not. She hates it, and loves to be called Jean, alone."
- 1972 Anne Tyler, The Clock Winder, Knopf, 1972, page 67
- He was trying to think of her name; she had come to cook him dinner twice last spring. - - - Jean, maybe. Or Betty. One of these plain names.