1880s

English

Noun

1880s pl (plural only)

1. The decade from 1880 to 1889.
   • 2009 March 8, Baz Dreisinger, “A Transracial Man”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Copeland, like most slaves, is woefully underdocumented; we know that she somehow became literate, migrated to New York in the 1880s and found a job in domestic service.

   • 2011, Paula Leverage, Theory of Mind and Literature, page 94:

     […] the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel, during which prostitutes in the poor areas of 1880s and 1890s London became the victims of an infamous string of throat slittings.

   • 2019, Shannon Withycombe, Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America, Rutgers University Press, unnumbered page:

     Beginning in the 1880s, the curette quickly became the popular choice for those doctors on the lookout for instrumental aid in cases of pregnancy loss.

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decades in English (edit)