Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swift.
- noun An obsolete form of
jamb . - noun [OF.: see
jamb . Cf.jambieres .] Armor for the leg, sometimes made of cuir-bouilli, but most frequently of metal, much used during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. Seesolleret , and second cut underarmor . - noun In heraldry, same as
gamb .
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Examples
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The little grammar-school boys, known by the name of Grimos, called those leg-grown slangams Jambus, in allusion to the French word jambe, which signifieth a leg.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The little grammar-school boys, known by the name of Grimos, called those leg-grown slangams Jambus, in allusion to the French word jambe, which signifieth a leg.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The little grammar-school boys, known by the name of Grimos, called those leg-grown slangams Jambus, in allusion to the French word jambe, which signifieth a leg.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Although irreverently trivialized in the Western world -- perceived by outsiders as uncultivated or lacking structure -- dances like Lamba from the Bambara people of Mali could rival any French derived Grand rond de jambe.
Sasha Brookner: Sabar: African Hip-Hop Sasha Brookner 2012
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Although irreverently trivialized in the Western world -- perceived by outsiders as uncultivated or lacking structure -- dances like Lamba from the Bambara people of Mali could rival any French derived Grand rond de jambe.
Sasha Brookner: Sabar: African Hip-Hop Sasha Brookner 2012
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Let your legs really stretch in the ronde de jambe.
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Let your legs really stretch in the ronde de jambe.
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Let your legs really stretch in the ronde de jambe.
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The first time I went to a salon de beaute 'for un'epilation, when the beautician asked which body parts I answered "demi-jambe et les airelles".
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Let your legs really stretch in the ronde de jambe.
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