jane

• IPA^(key): /dʒeɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophone: Jain

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French Jannes (“Genoway”).

jane (plural janes)

1. (obsolete) A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century.
   • 14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Rime of Sire Thopas, The Canterbury Tales, 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Volume 1, page 124,

     His robe was of chekelatoun, / That coste many a jane.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     Certes was but a common Courtisane, / Yet flat refusd to haue a do with mee, / Because I could not giue her many a Iane.

Alternative forms.

jane (plural janes)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Jane, a woman.
2. Alternative spelling of jean
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. VII, Over-Production

     Ye miscellaneous, ignoble manufacturing individuals, ye have produced too much! We accuse you of making above two-hundred thousand shirts for the bare backs of mankind. Your trousers too, which you have made, of fustian, of cassimere, of Scotch-plaid, of jane, nankeen and woollen broadcloth, are they not manifold?

3. A female client of a prostitute.
   • http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1950-7-things-you-learn-as-cop-doing-prostitution-stings.html
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• Jaén, Jean, Jena, jean

jane

1. Rōmaji transcription of じゃね

jane

1. locative singular of jana
2. accusative plural of jana