[Ads-l] Antedating of "Homo"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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homo, n.2 (OED 1923)

1917 in Chad Heap _Slumming_ (2009) 351 [One of the speaker's acquaintances] spent much time with a couple of the above mentioned "Homos."

Fred Shapiro

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