[Ads-l] Major Antedating of "Hispanic"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Hispanic (OED 1972)

1823 _Times_ (London) 6 Feb. 3/4 (Newspapers.com)  The foreigner, who is not prepossessed by any national partiality in favour of either the Castilian or the Portuguese modifications of the Hispanic romance.

Fred Shapiro

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