Also 8 jette d’eau. Pl. jets d’eau. [F., = ‘jet of water’; see also JETTEAU.] An ornamental jet of water ascending from a fountain or pipe. Also, the fountain or pipe from which such a jet issues.
1706. Phillips, Jet d’Eau, the Pipe of a Fountain that casts up the Water into the Air.
1720. Wilcocks, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. IV. 322. The King is mightily pleased with a new jette d’eau in Herrenhausen gardens.
1776. H. Swinburne, in Crts. Europe close last Cent. (1841), I. 92. The orange groves in the King’s garden, watered by jets d’eau, in the style of those … in Italy.
1808. Pike, Sources Mississ., III. (1810), 256. In the centre of the square was a Jet d’eau, which cast forth water from eight spouts.
1858. Lardner, Hand-bk. Nat. Phil., Hydrost., etc. 94. The water will … rise to a certain height forming a natural jet d’eau.
