Definition of "jass" []

• Obsolete spelling of jazz. (noun)

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• "Even tho they prolly danced the fox-trot to ragtime back then, they were jumping all over the new "jass" music as listening favorites."
• "Scott Joplin had introduced a new "jass" musical idiom with his rags, slow drags, and two-steps, and by the 1920s it had become fully-developed jazz."
• "It's 1913 in New Orleans, the local music called "jass" is well on its way to becoming the American artform "jazz" and Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr is making a go of it in the straight world, working for law firms and moving in with his long time love Justine."