There were also "jessamy" gloves -- namely, kid gloves perfumed with jessamine; a black velvet mask; a superb painted fan; a box of patches, another of violet powder, another of rouge, and a fourth of pomatum; one of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)] Reference
Wi'that she gid me a beautiful spreg o 'jessamy, jist. From Wordnik.com. [The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire] Reference
I'd rather zitin tha poorch, wi 'tha jessamy ranglin roun it, and hire. From Wordnik.com. [The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire] Reference
Up the side he scrambles, with the help of a side-ladder, all togged out to the nines in a span-new blue jacket and anchor buttons, a cap with a gould band, and white ducks made to fit -- as jemmy-jessamy a looking fellow as you'd see of a cruise along London parks, with the waterman singing out alongside to send down. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.] Reference
Fancy a Boston publisher going about his business tricked up in this dandified dress -- a true New England jessamy. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
An 'jilliflow'rs, an' jessamy. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect] Reference
The most jessamy fellow in life. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827] Reference
Her skin's lik 'the jessamy blossom. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect] Reference
Tha jessamy awver thy porch zweetly bloomin. From Wordnik.com. [The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire] Reference
Is the rwose an 'the jessamy, where she did pluck. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect] Reference
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