[Ads-l] Yet Further Antedating of "Lunch"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Jan 6 03:37:18 UTC 2015


lunch (OED, n.2 2.a., 1829)

1677 Guy Miege _A New Dictionary French and English_ (Early English Books Online)  A LUNCH, or luncheon of bread, grosse tranche de pain.

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