lox (smoked salmon) from 1668??

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>"1668 Cleveland's Old Gill ii, Her Breath smells like Lox, Or unwiped Nocks."
>
>Is this lox n.2, a kind of smoked salmon, first citation 1941??

Probably not exactly. But I think it might could be lax n.1, basically the
same word, first citation some time before the Deluge. There is an example
in SND from 1819 spelled with an "o".

-- Doug Wilson


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