? Obs. [f. JAMA.] A kind of dress or frock for children.
1793. W. Hodges, Trav. India, 3, note. This [long muslin] dress is in India usually worn both by Hindoos and Mahomedans, and is called Jammah; whence the dress well known in England, and worn by children, is usually called a jam.
1821. Southey, in Life & Corr. (1849), I. 44. I had a fantastic costume of nankeen for highdays and holydays, trimmed with green fringe; it was called a vest and tunic, or a jam.
1879. Louisa Potter, Lancash. Mem., 50. A little boy’s dress she always called a ‘jam.’
