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Jersey   /dʒˈərzi/   Listen
Jersey

noun
(pl. jerseys)
1.
A Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies.  Synonyms: Garden State, New Jersey, NJ.
2.
The largest of the Channel Islands.  Synonym: island of Jersey.
3.
A close-fitting pullover shirt.  Synonyms: T-shirt, tee shirt.
4.
A slightly elastic machine-knit fabric.
5.
A breed of diary cattle developed on the island of Jersey.



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"Jersey" Quotes from Famous Books



... stripping began rapidly. Each principal drew on a sleeveless jersey and gymnasium trousers, the latter secured by a belt. On the feet were rubber-soled shoes, as giving the best chance for foothold on ...
— Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point • H. Irving Hancock
... than that of city authorities to proclaim the prevalence of small-pox in the town. Still, startling facts have sprung from original sources of inquiry. A town meeting is called in the State of Connecticut, terror-stricken owners in New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania meet for council. Massachusetts had a Governor twenty years ago bold in telling truth, which led to searching investigations by experts and officers of the State. With autocratic power they made a diagnosis of diseases, which led to the stamping out of the infection by ...
— Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various
... Earl of Grantham, who sits in the House of Lords between the Earl of Jersey and the Earl of Greenwich, has a hundred thousand a year. To his lordship belongs the palace of Grantham Terrace, built all of marble and famous for what is called the labyrinth of passages—a curiosity which contains the scarlet ...
— The Man Who Laughs • Victor Hugo
... 90, 91) or mosquito hawks have long been known as great enemies of mosquitoes, and they certainly do destroy many of them as they are hawking about places where mosquitoes abound. Dr. J.B. Smith of New Jersey very much doubts their efficiency, but observations made by other scientific men would seem to indicate that they often devour large numbers of mosquitoes during the course of ...
— Insects and Diseases - A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread - or Cause some of our Common Diseases • Rennie W. Doane
... letter assumes real proportions. Your package arrived and I was delighted. I think I slept better last night on your little pillow than any night since we were called out. My pillow before was your sleeveless jersey. ...
— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey


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