Human Shield (1893); Broccoli Rabe (1928); Snail Salad

[Joan Hall]

>I don't have my DARE on me at home, but my memory is that the dates
>in their entries aren't intended to give first cites the way the
>OED's are, but just as indices of when a given form was collected.
>Is that wrong?


DARE does try to include earliest cites, but it was only with Volume IV
that we had access to Internet sources that often provide what now prove to
be earliest examples.