Timeline for When did 'virgin' start referring to non-alcoholic drinks
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 2, 2015 at 20:23 | comment | added | J.R. | @USER_8675309 - Nice bit of detective work. I like the research – and the drink. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 19:42 | comment | added | USER_8675309 | found a reference to a virgin daiquiri in 1963 -- books.google.com/… | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 16:40 | comment | added | J.R. | @USER_8675309 - I'm a bit surprised by the apparent timeline, too, but the OED is pretty good about citing very early usages. (For example, in the same entry, one meaning of virgin is "Employed for the first time," and four example usages are cited; the earliest is from 1627 and the latest is from 1839. One of them cites "his virgin sword Ægysthus", from a 18th-century translation of Homer's Odyssey.) Maybe it took until the 1970's before society felt comfortable naming a drink after a figure so revered by the Catholic church? It might have been regarded as too much for their virgin ears. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 13:47 | comment | added | USER_8675309 | I do appreciate the research. According to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(cocktail) bloody mary was coined in 1921, and I am having some difficulty believing that it took 50+ years for the word 'virgin' to start appearing before it. | |
| Dec 1, 2015 at 18:15 | history | answered | J.R. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |