[Ads-l] Antedating of "Rastafarian"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Rastafarian (OED 1935)

1934 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 17 Aug. 12/2 (NewspaperArchive)

That flagrant breaches of the law are committed with impunity by some of those who belong to these religious cults is shown by events connected with the arrest of Ras-Tafarians in St. Thomas some weeks ago.

Fred Shapiro



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