[Ads-l] antedating of 'malapropian'

[James Eric Lawson]

OEDO 1860

Reviews: God's Acre; or, Historical Notices relating to Churchyards. By
Mrs. Stone (Parker & Son.)
Type: Journal Article
URL: 
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.79233173&view=1up&seq=794&q1=malapropian
Volume: 1
Issue: 1599
Pages: 780
Publication: The Athenaeum
Date: 1858
Place: London
Publisher: British Periodicals Ltd., etc.
Accessed: 1/12/2023, 1:29:58 PM
Archive: HathiTrust

Extract: Mrs. Stone designates this last case as a “*bon bouche,*” which
is a symptom of the uncertain quality of her French. Occasionally, too,
her English is of rather a Malapropian character, as when she makes a
quotation, and remarks that it will not be *displaced*.

Term: malapropian


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James Eric Lawson

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