2 Antedatings

[Fred Shapiro]

Here are two antedatings from Amazon full-text searches:


hymen2 (OED, 1., 1615)

1538 Thomas Elyot _Dictionary_  Hymen ... a skinne in the secrete place of
a maiden, which whanne she is defloured is broken.


Holmesian, n. (OED 1958)

1930 Christopher Morley _Foreword_ in _Complete Sherlock Holmes_


Fred Shapiro


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