"String bikini" before 1974?

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:20 AM -0400 8/21/05, Dennis R. Preston wrote:
>Will this cause database envy? And what makes you think that scholars
>with bigger databases can do better?
>
>dInIs

"It ain't the meat, it's the motion"
(Of course, it's the scholars with the smaller databases who tend to say that.)

L

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>>>What is there for "string bikini" before the OED2's 1974?   A couple
>>>of Web sites say they existed in the 1960's and the term was used in
>>>the 1970s. but have no quotations from those decades.
>>
>>I think I see an example from 1969, but some of the scholars have bigger
>>databases and can probably do better.
>>
>>-- Doug Wilson
>
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