Jane
Origin 1
From Old French Jannes ("Genoway").
Full definition of jane
Noun
jane
(plural janes)- (obsolete) A silver Genovese coin, first used in England in the 14th century.
- 14th c, Geoffrey Chaucer, , , 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain, Volume 1, page 124,His robe was of chekelatoun,
That coste many a jane. - 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:Certes was but a common Courtisane,
Yet flat refusd to haue a do with mee,
Because I could not giue her many a Iane.
Origin 2
Alternative forms.
Noun
jane
(plural janes)- Alternative capitalization of Jane, a woman.
- Alternative spelling of jean
- 1843, Thomas_Carlyle, , book 3, ch. VII, Over-ProductionYe miscellaneous, ignoble manufacturing individuals, ye have produced too much! We accuse you of making above two-hundred thousand shirts for the bare backs of mankind. Your trousers too, which you have made, of fustian, of cassimere, of Scotch-plaid, of jane, nankeen and woollen broadcloth, are they not manifold?