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▪ I. ‖ juba1|ˈdʒuːbə|
[L. juba mane, foliage of trees: see jube2.]
(See quot. 1880.)
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 100/1 Rice..beareth a seed in a sparsed juba, or tuft. 1706Phillips, Juba, the Main of a Horse..; among Herbalists a soft loose Beard which hangs at the end of the Husks of some Plants that are of the nature of Corn particularly in Millet. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. (ed. 6) 417/2 Juba, a loose panicle, with axis deliquescent.
▪ II. juba2 U.S.|ˈdʒuːbə|
Also juber, jouba.
[Negro.]
A species of dance or breakdown practised by the Black inhabitants of the southern United States, accompanied by clapping of the hands, patting of the knees and thighs, striking of the feet on the floor, and a refrain in which the word juba is frequently repeated. Also in Comb., as juba-dance, juba-patting, juba-shuffle.
18..Southern Sketches 98 (Bartlett) Here were Virginia slaves, dancing jigs and clapping Juber, over a barrel of persimmon beer. 1885Libr. Mag. July 1 On the rude floor of the forecastle, they danced their vigorous hoe-downs, jigs and jubah-shuffles. 1888Century Mag. XXXVI. 770/1 The juba-dance and the corn-shucking were equally invested with elements of the unreal and the grotesque.
▪ III. juba
obs. form of jube n.1 |