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jet d'eau
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Definition:A stream of water spouting from a fountain or pipe (especially from one arranged to throw water upward), in a public place or in a garden, for ornament.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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The veins and arteries spouted up such a prodigious quantity of blood, and so high in the air, that the great jet d’eau at Versailles was not equal to it for the time it lasted: and the head, when it fell on the scaffold floor, gave such a bounce as made me start, although I was at least half an English mile distant.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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