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1834 A. W. Fonblanque in Examiner 6 Apr. 209/1 The Bishop of London..has reckoned up lollipop stalls, and numbered green-grocers.

1845 W. M. Thackeray Legends of Rhine ix, in G. Cruikshank's Table-bk. Sept. 193 Ask the youth whether the lollypop-shop does not attract him?

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxiii. 197 Marching with great dignity towards the stall of a neighbouring lollipop-woman.

a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 32 His [Dryden's] lolly-pop adulteration of King Lear.

1952 J. Masefield So Long to Learn 203 Many of the speakers were of a kind that I called ‘lollipop-speakers’: they spoke every kind of verse as if it were a caramel to be sucked, without any glimmering of a notion that the words had any meaning.

1958 Times 16 Oct. 4/6 His [Beecham's] reluctance to offer ‘lollipop’ encores.

1959 Punch 16 Sept. 172/2 That will be no more than the ‘lollipop’ innings of a Compton, the once-in-a-while reappearance of a Cotton or a Kyle.

1962 Spectator 13 Apr. 463/2 What will inevitably be known as the ‘lollipop’ tax.

1970 P. Villiard Pract. Candymaking Cookbk. v. 62 I am going to start your candymaking career off with some recipes for lollipops... You will need a supply of lollipop sticks.