jettee

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A form of jetty — A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest; specifically, an upper storey which overhangs the part of the building below.

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Meanings

nounjettee (plural jettees)

plural jettees

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of jetty.

    [I]nſtead of demolition, they found conſtruction; for the French vvere then at vvork on the repair of the jettees. On the remonſtrances of General [Henry Seymour] Convvay, ſome parts of theſe jettees were immediately deſtroyed.

    1769, [Edmund Burke], Observations on a Late State of the Nation, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 86
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APA

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