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Jemima, jemima|dʒɪˈmaɪmə|
[Female Christian name.]
1. A made-up tie. Also attrib.
1899Somerville & ‘Ross’ Some Experiences Irish R.M. v. 97 We indulged in..‘Jemima’ ties with diagonal stripes. 1920Glasgow Herald 3 Apr. 4, I have never learned the knack of fixing a dress tie, and I have not the moral courage to wear a jemima.
2. pl. Elastic-sided boots; the British name for Congress boots.
1902M.A.P. 29 Mar. 323/1, I spoke of Mr. Chamberlain's having fallen from sartorial grace to the extent of wearing ‘Jemimas’. 1906Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 3/1 A pair of well-preserved ‘jemimas’. They are a kind of footgear the immortal Teufelsdröckh himself might have worn, unless he had a weakness for bluchers. 1927Glasgow Herald 24 Aug. 8 The old-fashioned, long obsolete elastic-sided boots, known for some obscure reason as ‘Jemimas’. 1961Times 2 Oct. 13/4 The..Dame would at last be caught in the mangle out of whose rollers protruded the struggling feet in the supposedly ludicrous Jemimas. |