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Ever need a fact or quotation on "jamborees"? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this word. It represents a compilation of "single sentences" and/or "short paragraphs" from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term "jamborees," including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. This is not an encyclopedic book, but rather a collage of statements made using the word "jamborees," or related words (e.g. inflections, synonyms or antonyms). This title is one of a series of books that considers all major vocabulary words. The entries in each book cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This data dump results in many unexpected examples for "jamborees," since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a computer-generated linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under fair use conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

Familiar Quotations

Jamborees – "Celebration"

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.–Daniel Day-Lewis

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.–Paul Sweeney

Use in Literature

Jamborees

That creature is a jamboree.–Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) in What Is Man?.

Here was the hated tribe of rich men, the idle classes, all dressed up with flags flying, riding across the country on a jamboree.–James J. Davis in The Iron Puddler.

There's to be no end of dances and drives and general jamborees.–Lucy Maud Montgomery in Anne of the Island.

Now I'm a reckless painter chap who loves a jamboree, And one night in Cyrano's bar I got upon a spree; And there were trollops all about, and crooks of every kind, But though the place was reeling round I didn't seem to mind.–Robert W. Service in Ballads of a Bohemian.

Jamborees – "Celebration"

In Matsue its celebration is particularly interesting, as the old city still preserves many matsuri customs which have either become, or are rapidly becoming, obsolete elsewhere.–Lafcadio Hearn in Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan, vol 2.

The celebration of the Emperor's birthday is the only other occasion when the miya are paraded.–Lafcadio Hearn in Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan, vol 2.

Jamborees – "Festivity"

Festivities of various sorts were held on this early playground, always a May day celebration with its Maypole dance and its May queen.–Jane Addams in Twenty Years At Hull House.

Now, as this festivity had originated in the suggestion of Margrave, so, by a natural association of ideas, every one, in talking of the ball, talked also of Margrave.–Edward Bulwer-Lytton in A Strange Story, vol 3.

The festivities were delayed awaiting the return of the warriors who had remained to engage in the skirmish with the white men, so that it was quite late when all were in the village, and the dance of death commenced to circle around the doomed officer.–Edgar Rice Burroughs in Tarzan of the Apes.

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Jamborees – "Celebration" 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Jamborees 2
• Jamborees – "Celebration" 2
• Jamborees – "Festivity" 2
• Jamborees – "Gala" 4
• Nonfiction Usage 5
• Bibliographic Usage 5
• Encyclopedic Usage 6
• Lexicographic Usage 9
• Index 16