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Old 04-05-2012, 06:19 PM
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Earliest usage of "dollar"?
Can anyone top this for earliest appearance of the word "dollar" in English?

ROSS
That now
Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition:
Nor would we deign him burial of his men
Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch
Ten thousand dollars to our general use.

From "Macbeth", c. 1603


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