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1788 July 10, “Friday’s Post”, in The Ipswich Journal, number 3026, Ipswich, Suffolk, published 1788 July 12, page , column 1:
The young lady, who made her firſt appearance in Lady Bab Lardoon, at the Haymarket on Monday night laſt, is a Miſs Prideaux, and lineally deſcended from one of the daughters and co-heireſſes of the Right Hon. John Wilmot, the witty Earl of Rocheſter, and conſequently related to the Sandwiches, Pomfrets, Coopers, and many other noble families.
One of several younger towns named after the town in Kent or after a person bearing the surname:
I dined at the Cocoa Tree […] That reſpectable body, of which I have the honour of being a member, affords every evening a ſight truly English. Twenty or thirty, perhaps, of the firſt men in the kingdom, in point of faſhion and fortune, ſupping at little tables covered with a napkin, in the middle of a coffee-room, upon a bit of cold meat, or a Sandwich, and drinking a glaſs of punch.
A Receipt to thin the Houſe of Commons. Put Mr. Martin in the chair—let Mr. Alderman Watſon have the opening ſpeech—Mr. Hawkins Brown the anſwer—Mr. Drake the reply—Mr. Beaufoy the rejoinder—and forbid the eating of Sandwiches in the gallery. Probatum eſt!
1790 February 27, “Oratorios”, in The Times, number 1615, London, page , column 1:
Anstruther is a mighty good ſort of a man—but every man is not born an orator; even Mrs. Anſtruther, who has an excellent underſtanding, is obliged to have recourſe to Sandwiches, to render the unavoidable attendance ſupportable.
While many a suitor, / And gay coadjutor / In the eating-and-drinking line, scorns to be neuter; / One, being perhaps just return’d with his tutor / From travel in England, is tempting his “future” / With a luxury neat as imported, “The Pewter,” / And charming the dear Violantes and Iñeses / With a three-corner’d Sandwich, and soupçon of “Guinness’s;” / While another, from Paris but newly come back, / Hints “the least taste in life” of the best cogniac.
FORSTER & DAVIS Will sell by public auction, at their Mart, THIS DAY, the 11th March, instant, at twelve o’clock, […] One egg whisk / Six Sandwich boxes assorted / Six gravy strainers […]
The German word is commonly used only for more richly filled sandwiches, typically with salad and sauce, normally featuring toasted bread or a bread roll. Plainer variants with traditional German bread go by a variant of regional German names like Stulle. Variants with a bread roll often go simply by Brötchen(“bread roll”).
The noun is generally neuter, but may be treated as masculine by some speakers.
The inflected forms above are loosely ordered by frequency. The plural is usually Sandwiches in formal writing, but the two alternative plurals are equally frequent in common usage.
