Antedating of "Bangs"

[Fred Shapiro]

bang (OED, n.2, 1878)

1877 _Chicago Daily Tribune_ 7 Jan. 9 (ProQuest)  Paris ladies are banging
their front hair after the old English bar-maid style.  False bangs can be
purchased.

NOTE:  This also appears to antedate OED _bang_, v.2 (1882).

Fred Shapiro


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