Condoms in the 18th century

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
> Where would one find a collection of terms used for "condom" in the
> 18th century -- both standard and slang?

Besides "cundum", the only other term mentioned in Grose 1785/1811 is "machine":

http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Grose-VulgarTongue/m/machines.html

Those two are also the only terms with first cites from the 18th
century listed in the Historical Thesaurus of the OED.

--bgz

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