Obs. A form app. arising from confusing It. getto (d’acqua) and F. jet d’eau: see JETTO, JET D’EAU.
1705. Addison, Italy (1767), 297. One might easily make a great variety of jetteaus … in a garden that has the river Inn running by its walls.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Reservatory, In order to make Jetteaus, one of the greatest Ornaments of a Garden.
a. 1763. Shenstone, Ess., 103. Squirts up his rivulet in jetteaus.
