"blue laws", 1755

[Shapiro, Fred]

As far as I know, that 1755 citation is the earliest known.

Fred Shapiro
Editor
YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS (Yale University Press)



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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joel S. Berson [Berson at ATT.NET]
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Subject: "blue laws", 1755

Is the 1755 quotation for "blue laws" that I presented here in 2007
(and Fred Shapiro had seen but was skeptical of the date for) still
the earliest known?

Joel

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