Usage History of 'tortoiseshell'

The following chart shows how frequently 'tortoiseshell' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'tortoiseshell' occurred 2 times in books in 1681 and 8,805 times in 2008. From 1681 to 2008, the word 'tortoiseshell' was used a total of 205,557 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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