[Ads-l] Antedating of "Policeman"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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Policeman (OED 1788)

1787 An Irregular Ode 14 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)

Meeting a Police-man one day at the corner of a street, she disliked his look.

Fred Shapiro

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