ˈcalvered, ppl. a. ? Obs. (exc. Hist.)
Also 7 calvert, calvored.
[f. calver v.]
Used from end of 16th c. app. in room of the earlier calver a.: see calver v. Cf. quots. 1822 and 1860.
| 1610 B. Jonson Alch. ii. ii. (1616) 622 My foot-boy shall eate phesants, caluerd salmons. a 1640 Massinger Guardian iv. i, Great lords sometimes For change leave calvert-salmon and eat sprats. 1651 Barker Art of Angling (1820) 11 We must have two dishes of calvored Trouts. 1691 Shadwell Scowrers ii. Wks. 1720 IV. 330 Think on the Turbott and the Calvert Salmon at Locket's. 1822 Nares, Calver'd salmon..now means, in the fish trade, only crimped salmon. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 560 Prince George, who cared as much for the dignity of his birth as he was capable of caring for any thing but claret and calvered salmon. 1860 Kitchener Cook's Orac. 178 note, Calvered Salmon is the Salmon caught in the Thames, and cut into slices alive. |