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English
Etymology
Attested since at 1951.[1] The term is unrelated to the color of the newspaper.[1]
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Proper noun
the Grey Lady
- The New York Times.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Barry Popik (2004 July 18) “Gray Lady/Grey Lady; Paper of Record; All the News That’s Fit to Print (New York Times)”, in The Big Apple, retrieved 2021-09-12: “"Old Gray Lady" dates, at least, from the 1950s. […] The name does not come from a unique color of newsprint.”