[Ads-l] Antedating of "American" (Adjective)

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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American, adj. (OED 1580)

1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet _New Found Worlde_  (table of chapters) Of a tree named Genipat in the American tong.

Fred Shapiro

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