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Jacques

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Jacques ♂ (French) form of James and Jacob. In French there is no distinction between a form corresponding to Jacob and a form corresponding to James. This is a perennially popular French given name, and Jacques or Jacques Bonhomme has been used (like John Bull in English) as a typification of the ordinary citizen. In Shakespeare's time it was also used as an English name, pronounced ‘jay-kwez’, as in the case of the melancholy character Jacques in As You Like It. Though rarely, if ever, now used in Britain it is found in the United States.

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Jacques

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Jacques, a discontented lord attending the banished duke in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Many of the play's most memorable lines are his, including the speech beginning ‘All the world's a stage’ (ii. vii).

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Jacques

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Jacques ♂ (French) From Latin Jacobus. See James and Jacob.

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Jacques

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

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