Antedating of "Dentist"

[Fred Shapiro]

dentist (OED 1759)

c1746 Mainie Anne Cathcart _Copies of Miss Cathcarts letters to Sir John
Houstoune, since she came away from him_ 44 (Eighteenth Century
Collections Online)  _Bouchard_ is the Name of the Dentist she employed at
_Bourdeaux_, already mentioned.

Fred Shapiro


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