jambee

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noun

A light walking cane that was fashionable in the eighteenth century. It apparently came from the Calamus plants.

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Meanings

nounjambee (plural jambees)

plural jambees

  1. obsoleteA 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

Origin

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

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APA

jambee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jambee

MLA

“jambee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jambee. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “jambee,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jambee.

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