jametten.

1887 J. H. Collens Guide to Trinidad v. 51 The roughs, rowdies and diametres take advantage of the privilege of masking, and indulge in coarse ribaldry, till the police finally take them temporarily under their wing.

1957 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 27 Feb. 8/8 Another notorious jamette who declined with age was Boadicea, the female chantwell.

1968 I. Oxaal Black Intellectuals come to Power v. 82 The majority of the early steelbands were from lower class districts, and the old neighborhood rivalries of the jamettes and stickfighters were resurrected in the steelband wars which began to rage, particularly at Carnival.

1975 Savacou Sept. 57 It should be emphasised that the majority of the working class were not jamets themselves, and would not have approved of much of their way of life.

2011 R. S. King in F. Smith Sex & Citizen 214 Jamettes in particular were known for wreaking havoc upon Victorian morals, particularly with their sexualized Carnival performances.

1965 C.R. Ottley Trinidadianese 27 Jamet, an indecent woman predisposed to obscene language.

1972 H. S. Ladoo No Pain like this Body 80 Well all you womens know dat Ama is a jamet. Man never enuff for she.

1984 E. Lovelace Jestina's Calypso ii. in Jestina's Calypso & Other Plays 38 You see! Is bacchanal they want. Bacchanal. To scandalize yourself, to bring yourself down, like a jamette. [screaming] To raise up your dress and show them your panty.

1994 D. Brand Bread out of Stone 47 My grandmother used to say, ‘Don't go out there and behave like a little jamette’.

2000 R. Maharaj Lagahoo's Apprentice xx. 270 You were the source of my distress. The reason why I was called a jamette and a used woman.

1956 Caribbean Q. 4 188 It is described as ‘Jamette Carnival’ because of the wide currency at that time of the word (diamètre or diamèt) which was applied to..the people below the diameter of respectability, or the ‘underworld’.

1979 B. Brereton Race Relations Colonial Trinidad viii. 171 Throughout the 1870s the attitude taken by the authorities towards the jamet Carnival was vacillating.

2007 P. R. Franco in G. L. Green & P. W. Scher Trinidad Carnival i. 29 The Jamette Carnival..shifted the focus away from the private masquerade balls to the public or street festival.