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- noun Plural form of
Jane . - proper noun A patronymic
surname derived from a medieval variant ofJohn .
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Examples
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He'd found out that somewhere back in the family history the name Janes had been misspelled and come out wrongly as Janus.
Evening Standard - Home Alison Roberts 2011
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He'd found out that somewhere back in the family history the name Janes had been misspelled and come out wrongly as Janus.
Evening Standard - Home Alison Roberts 2011
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These old "Plain Janes" keep bringing home venison, on the cheap!
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These old "Plain Janes" keep bringing home venison, on the cheap!
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On his LiveJournal, Street Angel and Plain Janes artist Jim Rugg has posted some art related to two projects he's working on.
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I liked The Re-Gifters, but wasn't bowled over by the line's flagship, The Plain Janes, and even less impressed by Clubbing -- so guess which two of those titles were getting sequels?
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For me, the story of The Plain Janes ended with a dangling, and troubling, loose end: the character of Damon.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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The Plain Janes begins with a terrorist bombing in "Metro City."
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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In the Plain Janes books, both the main Jane and her fellows are quite passionate about art as a social statement -- "making the world beautiful," as they put it.
Is Passion Roger Sutton 2008
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I read The Plain Janes first on my own, then returned to it as a Cybils judge and found more to like than I'd remembered.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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