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Thread #30288 Message #388216
Posted By: Fiolar
02-Feb-01 - 09:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: What is the derivation of 'broad'?
Subject: RE: BS - What is the derivation of 'broad'?
The term is mainly American in origin. The Oxford Dictionary of Slang gives an obsolete word "broadwife" meaning an female slave searated from her husband as in "abroad" and "wife."