jambee
English
editEtymology
editSee jamb. Compare Old French jamboier (“to walk”).
Noun
editjambee (plural jambees)
- (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
- 1709-1711, The Tatler
References
edit- “jambee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.