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† jessamy, n. Obs.
Also 7 jessamie, jes(s)imy, jecimy, gessamy, -imy.
[Corrupt. of jessamine.]
1. = jasmine 1.
1633Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 6 Meditation is..as he that smells the Violet, the Rose, the Jessamie, and the Orange flowers dividually. 1733Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVIII. 179 She gnawed the Jessamy likewise, but least of all some Holly Trees.
2. A yellow colour like that of yellow jasmine.
1750E. Smith Compl. Housew. (ed. 14) 293 If you colour them [gloves], scrape some of the following colours amongst the white-lead;..for a jessamy, yellow-oaker.
3. A perfume or cosmetic made from jasmine.
1671Eachard Obs. Answ. Cont. Clergy 146 A little pot of double refin'd Jesimy and a box full of specifick perfum'd Lozenges.
4. A man who scents himself with perfume or who wears a sprig of jessamine in his buttonhole (?); a dandy, a fop. See jemmy n. 1 b.
1753J. Hawkesworth Adventurer 20 Oct. 176 You have frequently used the terms Buck and Blood,..but you have not considered them as the last stages of a regular procession..the scale consists of eight degrees; Greenhorn, Jemmy, Jessamy, Smart, Honest Fellow, Joyous Spirit, Buck, and Blood. Ibid. 177 My labour..recommended me to the notice of the ladies, and procured me the gentle appellation of Jessamy. 1802Mrs. J. West Infidel Father I. 88 If men became Jessamys, and Women Amazons. Ibid. I. 296 The half pagan half democratic dress of clerical jessamies.
5. attrib. That is a jessamy, as j. fopling; of a jessamy, as jessamy air (see 4), jessamy plant; also jessamy-butter = jasmine-butter (see jasmine 3); jessamy-chocolate, (?) chocolate perfumed with jasmine; jessamy gloves, (?) gloves of a light yellow colour.
1657Reeve God's Plea 123 How much girdles, gorgets,..rose powders, gessamy butter, complexion waters do cost in our daies. 1666Pepys Diary 27 Oct., I did give each of them a pair of jesimy plain gloves, and another of white. 1675T. Duffet Mock Temp. iii. i. 22, 3 Ounces of Jessimy-butter..and 6 pair of Jessimy-Gloves. 1696Lond. Gaz. No. 3181/4 Spanish Gessimy Plants. 1697Ibid. No. 3302/4 Jessamy-Chocolate, with other Perfumes and Spirits; all newly come from Florence. 1756W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans III. 106 A severe punishment to the fribbled jessamy waiter. 1800Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1801) IV. 357 The steel-clad baron and the jessamy fopling. 1837Old Commodore II. 124 A slighter figure now appears..with a gentle jessamy air.
Hence † jessamy v. trans., to anoint or perfume with ‘jessamy’ (sense 3).
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 128/2 Terms of Art used in Barbing and Shaving..Jecimy the Hair, is to put Jecimin on the palms of your hands and rub it on the hair. |