noun
Jesse
JEHS-ee
noun
1
A decorative artwork, often a stained-glass window or branching candlestick, showing the family tree leading to Christ.
"The cathedral's west window is a magnificent Jesse tree in stained glass."
How to Use Jesse
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn artistic family-tree design, usually in church art, tracing Christ's ancestry back to Jesse, father of King David.
When to use it
A specialist term found mainly in art history and church architecture.
Word Forms
Jesses plural, Jesses plural
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