Query: "Jazbo on upper lip" (1915)

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> The first fifteen pages of GBooks take "soul patch" back only to 1999,
> although, IME. it's certainly older than that. As recently as last
> year, authors were still feeling that the term had to be defined for
> the casual reader.

When we talked about "soul patch" back in '05, Bill Mullins posted a
cite from 1986 (which is now in the OED):

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0506C&L=ADS-L&P=R9994&I=-3

--bgz

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