"apple-bee", 1846

[Laurence Horn]

Not, we assume, a reference to the (usually capitalized) restaurant chain…

LH

On Apr 14, 2013, at 12:32 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> "I once had the pleasure of spending a winter where sleigh-rides, and
> apple-bees, and spelling schools and grammar schools, constituted a
> very delightful complement of the useful and ornamental."
>
> By Fanny Forester.  From Graham's Magazine for July.  "The Great
> March Holiday".  [Otherwise known as "The Spring Break"?]  The North
> American, (Philadelphia, PA) Tuesday, June 30, 1846; Issue 2258; page
> 1, col. 3.  19th-C. U.S. Newspapers.
>
> This antedates all OED quotations that apply a modifier to "bee"
> (n.1, sense 4).
>
> Joel
>
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