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etymology - What is the origin of bootleg? - English Language Usage . . . The appearance of 'bootleg' without explanation suggests the sense intended is known or can be derived by astute readers from the context In addition, the sense of the 1844 use, that is, generally, 'illicit trade in liquor', is not only at odds with 'boot-leg' in the sense of 'boot-leg coffee' and 'type of large beer stein', it antedates the
What is the word for a path that is made naturally by the action of . . . They are called desire paths (also desire lines, social trails, goat tracks, bootleg trails, or intention lines) The philosopher Gaston Bachelard called them les chemins du désir (pathways of desire), so that's one possible origin of the term
Who coined the term Holocaust to refer to the Nazi final solution . . . In the sense of ‘the mass murder of the Jews by the Nazis in the war of 1939–1945’, the OED says The specific application was introduced by historians during the 1950s, probably as an equivalent to Hebrew ḥurban and shoah ‘catastrophe’ (used in the same sense); but it had been foreshadowed by contemporary references to the Nazi atrocities as a ‘holocaust’