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1869 Demorest's Young Amer. Oct. 460 (caption) Eating at a small lunch counter or eating-saloon.

1887 C. B. George 40 Years on Rail v. 79 You can have one end of the station for a lunch-counter, if you want it.

1904 G. S. Fullerton Syst. Metaphysics xv. 242 To obtain a sandwich from the woman at the lunch-counter.

1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 223 He would be dining..at whirlwind lunch counters.

1926 J. Black You can't Win vi. 74 I went back uptown and into a lunch counter. The waiter was idle and talkative.

1934 Archit. Rev. 76 159/1 (caption) Lunch counter with recessed stainless steel front.

1960 New Statesman 26 Mar. 435/2 Possibly President Eisenhower will be a shade or two happier when a coloured Georgian and a white Georgian, seated on adjacent stools, have pie and coffee at a Woolworth lunch-counter in Atlanta—and possibly he may not.

1970 Times 23 Mar. 13/3 A nostalgic echo of those days when it seemed that all we had to do to achieve integration was to sit down at enough lunch counters together.