Kewl! On Thursday, December 4, 2014, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote: > > Warner used it in that way of a paramour in 1589 in "Albions England" > Shakespeare used it in the same sense in 1602 in "Marry Wives of Windsor" > while for a wife Othello in 1616 is the first recorded instance according > to the Oxford English Dictionary >