Paul Jones

noun

1. an old-time dance in which partners are exchanged

Word History and Origins

Origin of Paul Jones¹

C19: named after John Paul Jones

Example Sentences

To quote my old friend John Paul Jones, I have not yet begun to fight.

From The Daily Beast

However, Paul Jones was the last man in the world to think of danger; so he put boldly out to sea, and took his chances.

From Project Gutenberg

Like John Paul Jones, an accident had made him a captain of a ship when he was a mere boy.

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This was the man who had been in Paul Jones's great fight and had received the surrender of the captain of the Serapis.

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No one is ignorant of that, which passed in the too well known affair of Paul Jones.

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He was the only surviving blood-relative of Paul Jones in this country, being his great-grandnephew.

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