jambee

English

Etymology

See jamb. Compare Old French jamboier (“to walk”).

Noun

jambee (plural jambees)

1. (obsolete) A light walking cane that was fashionable in the eighteenth century. It apparently came from the Calamus plants.
   • 1709-1711, The Tatler

     This Virtuoso has a parcel of Jambees now growing in the East-Indies, where he keeps a man on purpose to look after them

References

• “jambee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.