"String bikini" before 1974?

[Dennis R. Preston]

Will this cause database envy? And what makes you think that scholars
with bigger databases can do better?

dInIs


>>What is there for "string bikini" before the OED2's 1974?   A couple
>>of Web sites say they existed in the 1960's and the term was used in
>>the 1970s. but have no quotations from those decades.
>
>I think I see an example from 1969, but some of the scholars have bigger
>databases and can probably do better.
>
>-- Doug Wilson


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