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I’m not from the US, and the usage from the 1800s was “to throw a shade on”, and all the other usages on Wikipedia’s article are from the 1980’s and later. I don’t think it’s fair to say it’s been used for hundreds of years.
The 2015 popularization sounds about right for when I first started hearing “throwing shade”, but this is legitimately my first time seeing “shades” used like this in its own.
Thanks for that!
I’m not from the US, and the usage from the 1800s was “to throw a shade on”, and all the other usages on Wikipedia’s article are from the 1980’s and later. I don’t think it’s fair to say it’s been used for hundreds of years.
The 2015 popularization sounds about right for when I first started hearing “throwing shade”, but this is legitimately my first time seeing “shades” used like this in its own.