"first usage" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe the first recorded instance of something being used. For example, "The phrase 'catch-22' originated in Joseph Heller's 1961 novel of the same name, marking its first usage."
Memory of the first usage has simply been wiped clean, as by a damp rag.
Allemagne admits to shedding a tear at the spray's first usage last summer.
The O.E.D. gives the first usage of the word "list" as appearing in "Hamlet" — Fortinbras is said to have drawn up a "list of lawelesse resolutes".
These cards typically donate a fixed amount upon first usage to a specific charity and then a percentage of your spending each time it's used thereafter.
It was the first usage of Tunisia's new "anti-terrorist law", widely condemned by rights groups when it was passed in July 2015 in the wake of two terrorist attacks, because of its vagueness.
The only way to sum up how people feel is the French word écoeuré – which means to be disgusted, physically sick, but also in its oldest sense, the first usage which predates the French revolution, to be "sick at heart".
As can be seen, most of the tags have been documented after their first usages, which corroborates that the taxonomy is a folksonomy.
The Court found the second usage of the word to constitute racial abuse.
(The second usage may be especially useful for future historians, since Spanx may soon make the condition obsolete. Alexandra Jacobs has more on that).
(For instance, although he notes that most students of emotion apply the term both to transient states and to a lasting attitude, he insists that only the second usage is correct.
Artists will be paid from a subscription pool based on "pro rata, per second" usage.Free from the constraints of having to manufacture and distribute plastic discs, any musician with a laptop can release whatever, whenever.
