Antedating of "Ethnography"

[Fred Shapiro]

ethnography (OED 1834)

1819 _Quarterly Review_ Apr. 486 (Periodicals Archive Online)  Tassoni is
equally precise in the ethnography of modern Italy.

Fred Shapiro


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