Antedating of "Billionaire"
Fred Shapiro
fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Apr 9 18:36:32 UTC 2003
billionaire (OED 1861)
1855 Fred Folio _Lucy Boston_ 305 My offspring, so nobly descended, so
exquisitely beautiful and accomplished, shall never so tarnish their
ancestral escutcheon as to become the 'ladies' of any thing less than
billionaires.
Fred Shapiro
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