jambee

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A light walking cane that was fashionable in the eighteenth century. It apparently came from the Calamus plants. obsolete
    — 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

词形变化

jambees plural

词源

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