[Ads-l] Yet Further Antedating of "Lunch"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Wow.

This looks like another example of an innocuous and presumably familiar
word that for inexplicable reasons of chance (and perhaps of writerly
"decorum") rarely appeared in print for many, many decades after its
introduction.

JL

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> lunch (OED, n.2 2.a., 1829)
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> 1677 Guy Miege _A New Dictionary French and English_ (Early English Books
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> nline)  A LUNCH, or luncheon of bread, grosse tranche de pain.
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