Quincea ñer a (OED?) & Fifteen (Cuba); OT: Popik & Cohen photo online

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Tue Aug 15 21:24:43 UTC 2006


On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:03:12PM -0400, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> Quinceañera
> ...
> Quinceañera is not in the OED? What does the  revised OED have? A movie was
> just released with the title Quinceañera.

We do have an entry drafted for this; the first quote is from
1972, but I'm not sure if this is pre- or post-research.
Antedatings welcome.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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