Jambe

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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An obsolete form of jamb.
  • n. [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. See solleret, and second cut under armor.
  • n. In heraldry, same as gamb.
  • Swift.
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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