date

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n. — (usually plural) Obs.

a news dispatch (of a specified date).

Quotations

1798

The London dates in the New York Papers, reach down to the first October.

1828

Our latest dates are from Liverpool, to 28th April, but they did not contain any very important news.

1875

Dates from Long Island to the 27th ult. say that fishing has somewhat improved from that place south--with a very fine prospect of herring.