[Ads-l] Antedating of "Dude" (OED Sense 2)

[Peter Reitan]

It seems to me, that if dude is qualified with "Eastern," then the word itself does not connote easternness, and therefor does not qualify as an example of a sense of dude meaning someone from the East.

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dude (OED, 2., 1884)

1883 Bismarck (N.D.) 11 May 2/6 (Newspapers.com)

Bismarck has at last been honored with the presence within her gates of a g=
enuine Eastern "dude."

Fred Shapiro

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