a. and sb. [a. F. sb. and adj. fem. (masc. jumeau), doublet of gemeau, -elle:—L. gemellus, dim. of geminus twin. Formerly naturalized; now an alien French word.]
† A. adj. Twinned or paired; made or shaped in couples or pairs, double. Obs.
c. 1475. Partenay, 1182. The yates Iumelles, mighty and strong.
1484. Caxton, Fables of Poge, v. The whiche parte was iumelle that is to wete double.
1882. Cussans, Hand-bk. Her., vii. (ed. 3), 116. A Gimmal or Jumelle Ring was formed of two flat hoops of gold, which fitted accurately within each other, and constituted but one ring.
B. sb. Applied to something that consists of a pair of things joined. a. A pair of opera-glasses. b. ‘The side pieces of a loom in which the cylinders are fitted’ (Cent. Dict., 1890).
1865. W. Cory, Lett. & Jrnls. (1897), 163. My jumelles box made a pillow.
