Antedating of "Cosmonaut"

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In a message dated 3/11/2004 10:24:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU writes:


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> Here's another example of a word first appearing as the name of a horse.
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> cosmonaut (OED 1959)
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> 1955 _Wash. Post_ 26 July 19 (ProQuest)  Saratoga Results ... Cosmonaut
> [name of horse].
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> Fred Shapiro
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Sheboygan Press - 6/3/1955
...1963 by astronaut Gordon Cooper. A Russian COSMONAUT, Valeri Bykovsky,
holds the record.....once a day and White three times. Soviet COSMONAUT Valery
Bykovsky holds the present.....have sought solutions to the problems. COSMONAUT
Alexi Leonov, the only previous man.....But the Soviets have not yet
maneuvered a COSMONAUT craft or conducted rendezvous..
Sheboygan, Wisconsin Friday, June 03, 1955  833 k

Sheboygan Press - 6/4/1955
...in the void as Alexei Leonov, the Soviet COSMONAUT who tumbled in space
for 10 minutes..
Sheboygan, Wisconsin Saturday, June 04, 1955  790 k

Sheboygan Press - 6/10/1955
...The firw: man ever in space, Soviet COSMONAUT Yuri Gagarin, sent the
astronauts a..
Sheboygan, Wisconsin Friday, June 10, 1955  847 k