Antedating of "Avalanche"

[Fred Shapiro]

avalanche (OED 1771)

1744  Windham, William. An account of the glacieres or ice alps in Savoy.
5 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  _Avalanches_ of Snow were
fallen.

Fred Shapiro


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