[Ads-l] "Leather-apron man" not in OED

[Joel Berson]

Should it be?

A quick GBooks search shows it in 1710, on both sides of the Atlantic.  It also appears during the Boston smallpox debate in 1722, in _A Friendly Debate; or, A Dialogue between Rusticus and Academicus_ and in Benjamin Franklin's first Silence Dogood essay, in the New-England Courant of April 2, 1722.

Joel


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