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 Je ne Sais Quoi.Jean Crapaud. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Jeames (1 syl.).
 
Any flunkey. Sometimes the Morning Post is so called.   1
   Thackeray wrote Jeames’s Diary (published in Punch), of which Jeames de la Pluche was the hero.   2
 


 Je ne Sais Quoi.Jean Crapaud. 

 
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