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(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
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Jambee means (obsolete) A light walking cane that was fashionable in the eighteenth century. It apparently came from the Calamus plants..
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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
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