One for the files?

Jonathon Green slang at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK
Tue Mar 11 10:20:26 UTC 2003


Hilton Als in New York Review of Books 3/27/03 p.11/3:

Jazz is her downfall. This music [...] was first called 'Jass' music, in
homage to the jasmine perfume that prostitutes wore in the red-light
district [of New Orleans].

Jonathon Green



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