Lexicographical Neighbors of Jillets
Literary usage of Jillets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1818)
"... representing a l"ulfs head with jillets, and the legend EA; and lastly, a
bronze medal, ..."
2. The Cook and Housewife's Manual: Containing the Most Approved Modern by Christian Isobel Johnstone (1828)
"Unless I get the jillets o' my ain up-bringing, I wadna trust them to scour a
pot-lid, Mr Touchwood." " Meg shall deliver the lecture on breeding and ..."
3. Catalogue of the Collection of Books and Manuscripts Belonging to Mr by Brayton Ives (1891)
"AMSTELODAMI: | Apud Danielem Elzevirium, 1676. 12°; bound in dark Hue crimped
morocco,with borders of overlapping circles inclosed in jillets, gilt edges, ..."
4. Secondary Accent in Modern English Verse: (Chaucer to Dryden) by Raymond Durbin Miller (1904)
"Salt, corn, jillets, my temples for to bind S. 117. A postern with a blind wicket
there was S. 130. -ful, And gnash his teeth eke with groaning ireful: full ..."
5. Catalogue of Books by English Authors who Lived Before the Year 1700 by Robert Hoe, James Osborne Wright, Carolyn Shipman (1905)
"Folio, brown morocco, gilt jillets, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery. Second edition:
with frontispiece-title containing portrait of Thucydides, ..."
6. A Text-book of the science and art of obstetrics by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1907)
"Two jillets should be kept within reach. They should be about a yard long.
Linen tape half an inch wide or narrow lamp-wick may be used when properly ..."
7. The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed by John Whitaker (1804)
"At the head of this niche within are some small jillets of stone; and a small
dove of stone, as the emblem of the Holy Ghost, in the centre. ..."
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