[Ads-l] Antedating of "Centerfold"

[Laurence Horn]

I suspect the more specialized sense--
OED s.v. centerfold, 2:
A person, esp. a woman, who appears or has appeared nude or scantily clad
in a photograph on the middle pages of a magazine.
--can be antedated back from the 1969 first cite, given that both the
layout and the "persons, esp. women" featured therein in (at least) Playboy
predate 1969, as some list members will recall.  (The OED includes a 1966
entry for "center fold", with space, from a piece in McCall's Magazine.)

LH

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 10:55 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
wrote:

> centerfold (OED 1941)
>
> 1938 _New York Daily News_ 23 Aug. 1 (Newspapers.com)
>
> Other pictures of subway crash on centerfold and back page.
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org