Early Citations for "Cool"

Fred Shapiro fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Sep 28 20:55:29 UTC 2005


The BBC WordHunt program has asked me about early citations for the
jazz-related slang sense of "cool," specifically they want to know about
pre-1948 citations plus any U.S. newspaper citations of the term before
1960.  Can anyone supply any such citations beyond what is listed in HDAS?

Fred Shapiro



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