Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of jolly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Joyful; merry; pleasant; jolly.

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Examples

  • “Un bacheler jolif et comté,” who differenced Hastings by change of tinctures, and bore -- _Vert, a maunche or_.

    The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

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