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  • proper noun A female given name, variant of Jasmine.

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Examples

  • In 2002, high schools in Jessamine County in Kentucky pushed back the first bell to 8: 40 a.m., from 7: 30 a.m.

    The Early Bird Gets the Bad Grade « Isegoria 2008

  • If Jessamine's confession were true -- and I believed in my heart that every word Jessamine had written was the truth -- what right had I to Hynds House itself?

    A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • "Jessamine," Nicholas Jelnik said as he bent over her, "you shall have your chance to rest.

    A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • Long story, short: Sharon Cook, a library worker at the Jessamine County Public Library in Kentucky -- former, actually, since she was fired for what she did -- objected to the inclusion of Alan Moore's graphic novel, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: The Black Dossier, among the graphic novels available at the library, citing its proximity to children's literature in the library.

    The Mondays: Things Are Getting Graphic In Kentucky 2009

  • Now that the story has hit the media, the Jessamine County Public Library Board is having to suffer Kentucky-fried activists attempting to bully the library into changing its policy, to enable the rampant censorship of books deemed offensive, immoral, pornographic, and other beyond-the-pale categorizations.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • Following the firing of two of its circulation staffers for barring an 11-year-old access to the graphic novel, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier (Wildstorm, 2008), the Jessamine County Library in Kentucky has re-catalogued and moved its entire graphic novel collection further away from its young adult books.

    2009 December « Monster Scifi Show Blog 2009

  • “Gillian Jessamine of Hellynbreuke, the cemetery queen,” he says.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • Now that the story has hit the media, the Jessamine County Public Library Board is having to suffer Kentucky-fried activists attempting to bully the library into changing its policy, to enable the rampant censorship of books deemed offensive, immoral, pornographic, and other beyond-the-pale categorizations.

    The Mondays: Things Are Getting Graphic In Kentucky 2009

  • Less than an hour north, in Berkeley, Emily's sister Jessamine is a graduate student in philosophy, working in an antiquarian bookstore, earnestly doing her part to save the California redwoods, and living a life straight out of Dickens or possibly Charlotte Brontë.

    The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman – review 2011

  • Long story, short: Sharon Cook, a library worker at the Jessamine County Public Library in Kentucky -- former, actually, since she was fired for what she did -- objected to the inclusion of Alan Moore's graphic novel, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume IV: The Black Dossier, among the graphic novels available at the library, citing its proximity to children's literature in the library.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

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