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▪ I. ‖ jube1|ˈdʒuːbiː|
Also 8 juba.
[a. L. jubē ‘bid’ or ‘order thou’; said to be from the words Jube, domine, benedīcere, pronounced from it by the deacon before the reading of the Gospel. (See Myrroure of Our Ladye (1873) 102.)]
1. A rood-loft or screen and gallery dividing the choir from the nave.
1767Ducarel Anglo-Norm. Antiq. 87 The jube or screen at the west end of the choir is a beautiful piece of architecture. 1838James Richelieu xxxv, Cross the jube, through the monks' gallery round the choir. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. 174 A feature..reduced to its subsequent form in the 11th or 12th century..the jube having been then substituted for the primitive ambo.
†2. See quot. (erron. juba). Obs.
1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. v. 68/2 The Preacher was plac'd in a Chair lifted up, which the Ancients call'd Chair, Throne, Tribunal, Juba, Exedra; which was ordinarily plac'd within the Enclosure of the Choir. The Bishops..sometimes mounted the Ambon or Juba, which was betwixt the Choir and the Nave.
▪ II. † jube2 Obs. rare—0.|dʒuːb|
[a. F. jube (Cotgr. 1611), L. juba.]
A mane.
1659Torriano, Giúba, the long Jube or fleece that hangs down from beasts necks, namely of a Lion.
▪ III. jube3|dʒuːb|
abbrev. of jujube 2.
1937Partridge Dict. Slang 445/2 Jube, a coll. abbrev. of jujube (the lozenge). 1967E. & M. A. Radford No Reason for Murder iii. 16 He bought..bars of chocolate and jubes. 1970J. Cleary Helga's Web. vii. 118 Do you have any menthol jubes?
▪ IV. jube4|dʒuːb|
[Persian.]
An open watercourse in Iranian cities.
1948in Punch's Almanack 2. 1953 A. Smith Blind White Fish in Persia iii. 48 By every pavement ran the jube, a stream of water which had doubtless been clean at the top of the town but did not remain so for long. 1959T. Griffith Waist-High Culture (1960) ix. 115 Tehran, its streets vivid with sidewalk hawkers, the flow of filth in the jubes.
▪ V. jube
variant of jub1. |