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Lochinvar|lɒkɪnˈvɑː(r)|
The name of the hero of a ballad in Sir Walter Scott's Marmion, used allusively for a young male eloper; also transf. (see also quot. 1951).
1879C. M. Yonge Magnum Bonum I. xii. 233 His bride..had had a young Lochinvar, and even in her wedding dress, favoured by sympathising servants, had escaped down the back stairs of a London hotel, and been married at the nearest Church. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III. xxviii. 129 Much he marvelled at this Australian edition of ‘Young Lochinvar’. 1906‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) 125 He..received the hearty thanks of the backyard Lochinvar. 1936J. Buchan Island of Sheep ix. 170 The young Lochinvar business was rather out of my usual line. 1951E. Hill Territory 311 Lochinvars sold the women to the drovers and the stations at {pstlg}10 a head. Ibid. 444 Lochinvar, the, old time term for catching lubras to work cattle, etc. 1966[see extramural a. b]. 1970New Yorker 3 Oct. 83/1 The majority of young artistic Lochinvars..have turned..to the tools and processes of modern industrial technology. 1972‘J. & E. Bonett’ No Time to Kill iv. 45 She looked..expectant, waiting..for the return of her young Lochinvar. But young Lochinvar..had found another bride, and she had married Eldred. |