jantily

The young lady must be of small figure, good form and features, and attired in a white dress, cut low at the top, a red sash around the waist, and a small straw hat placed jantily on the side of the head.

Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head

Their costume consists of white jackets, dark pants, and flat, white caps, worn jantily on the side of the head.

Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head

Costume consists of a dark coat, white vest, dark breeches, white hose, shoe and knee buckles, a low, flat cap set jantily on one side of the head, and a velvet cape thrown over the left shoulder.

Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head

Costume consists of a showy plaid dress, with a green waist, trimmed with purple cloth, cut in scallops; a small pink scarf worn over the shoulders, and tied at the side; a pink apron, trimmed with white; a small straw hat, bound with green ribbon, and set jantily on the head; hair done up low in the neck, and ornamented with blue and red ribbons.

Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head

A high-crowned hat of black felt was cocked jantily on one side of his head, and a medallion of the _Madre dei Dolori_ stuck in the band, completed the picturesque costume of the Corsican peasant.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

'The second species found in this region are more youthful in aspect, carry themselves with more swagger, wear their hats jantily, with greasy curls coaxed to project beyond the brim.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 Various 1841

There was but one particular in which their garb seemed generally to agree, and that was in the coonskin cap which surmounted the heads of most of them -- worn jantily upon the side of the head, with slips that flapped over the ears, and the tail of the animal depending from front or rear, tassel-fashion, according to the taste of the wearer.

The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1835

Haidee should be quite pretty, and costumed in a blue dress, black velvet waist, open in front, and laced across with blue ribbons; sleeves long and flowing; a small crimson apron, with bands of gold at the bottom; a black velvet belt around the waist, with a showy pin in the centre; bows of pink ribbon fastened with a small, showy pin at each shoulder; hair hanging in curls; hat made of velvet, trimmed with gold bands and white feathers, which should be placed jantily on the side of the head.

Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head