Jaques
noun
a disillusioned and satirical observer of life, in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Jaquesian
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a word derived from
Jaques.
Example Sentences
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If I am mad it is in a gentle, Jaquesian, melancholy manner.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
Beneath the Jaquesian melancholy of my temperament he diagnosed the potentiality of canine rabidness.
From The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
