[Ads-l] Major Antedating of "Hispanic"

[Ben Zimmer]

Clipped this a few days ago but forgot to post it to the list!

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108786505/hispanic-romance/

On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 6:35 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>
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