Egyptian boys played marbles before the days of Moses.

I think it is very important to point out barbecue ribs, black-eyed peas, grits and collards may, in fact, be a choicy dish to many black Americans. But it also sounds pretty darn good to me, a white man.

Coordinate term: exurb

ADOXOGRAPHY, […] The former word, with the still uglier adoxographical, would seem to be of transatlantic origin. Some years ago I drew attention (9 S. xi. 425) to the use of the adjective in an American periodical (The American Journal of Philology, xxiii. 393).