jalouse
Britishverb
Etymology
Origin of jalouse
C19: from French jalouser to be jealous of
Example Sentences
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“But it canna have been accident I could jalouse it had they worn their helms, but they were bonnetless. He must have known them.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
"He has a bit land o' his ain, sir: she made a gude marriage, it's thought, but I whiles jalouse he's no very gude to her."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
J'accuserai les vents et cette mer jalouse Qui retient, qui peut-etre a ravi Laperouse so the poem begins.
From Laperouse by Scott, Ernest
I jalouse ye came roond in a wherry frae the toon, and it's droll I never saw ye land.
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
I jalouse, my Lord Monteagle, ye’re saying ae word for my Lord Northumberland and twa for yoursel’.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
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