antedating boxing day (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

Not, strictly speaking, "American Dialect," but . . . .


OED has 1833 for "Boxing Day"

Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 14th January 1743, page 63 [metadata
states p. 23], col 2
[ http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/images.jsp?doc=174301140023 ]
"It was the Day after Boxing Day."

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London _General Advertiser_ Dec 25, 1747  p 3 col 1 [Newspaperarchive]
"Chrismass [sic] Gambols, representing the Humours of Christmas and
Boxing Day, in two Plates neatly Engrav'd."
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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