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Jakes  n.  A privy.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jakes" Quotes from Famous Books



... sumwhat. But to destroye all without consyderacyon, is and wyll be unto Englande for ever, a most horryble infamy amonge the grave senyours of other nacyons. A great nombre of them whych purchased these superstycyouse mansyons reserved of those lybrary bokes, some to serve theyr jakes, some to scoure theyr candlestycks, and some to rubbe theyr bootes. Some they sold to the grossers and sopesellers, and some they sent over see to the bokebynders, not in small nombre, but at tymes ...
— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage



Words linked to "Jakes" :   privy, outhouse



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