Jane

From Old French Jannes ("Genoway").

Full definition of jane

Noun

1. (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.

Alternative forms.

Noun

1. Alternative capitalization of Jane, a woman.
2. 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?

Anagrams

• jean, Jean
• Jena