Antedating of "Motorcycle"

[Fred Shapiro]

motorcycle (OED3 1896)

1895 _Chicago Daily Tribune_ 31 Oct. 7 (ProQuest)  Five hundred people,
anxious to see maneuverings of the motorcycles, waited for two hours at
the Washington Park clubhouse yesterday afternoon, but neither inventors
nor their machines appeared.

Fred Shapiro


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