When was the slang word COOL first used?

Tabby Tom

It's generally supposed to have originated in the world of jazz: the earliest quotations in the Oxford English Dictionary are dated 1947/1948. However, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang (ed Jonathon Green) says that it was late 19th-century US Black slang for 'good, fine, pleasing', and claims that there is a quotation from 1884 in the Dictionary of American Regional English. Sep 05 02, 3:18 PM

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