[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Lunch"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Tue Jan 6 03:15:37 UTC 2015


lunch (OED, n.2 2.a., 1829)

1753 _The Young W[o]man's Companion_ (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  Lunatick lunch luncheon lungs.

Fred Shapiro

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