Usage History of 'dross'

The following chart shows how frequently 'dross' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'dross' occurred 2 times in books in 1579 and 26,109 times in 2008. From 1579 to 2008, the word 'dross' was used a total of 532,188 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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