calveredadj.
? Obsolete (exc. historical).
Used from end of 16th cent. apparently in room of the earlier calver adj.: see calver v. Cf. quots. 1822, 1860.
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1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. ii. sig. D3 My foote-Boy shall eate Phesants, caluerd Salmons. View more context for this quotation
a1640 P. Massinger Guardian iv. ii. 115 in 3 New Playes (1655) Great Lords sometimes For change leave calvert Sammon, and eat Sprats.
1653 T. Barker Art of Angling 14 Trouts close, boyled with the calvored Trouts.
1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers ii. i. 14 Think on the Turbott and the Calvert Salmon at Lockets.
1822 R. Nares Gloss. Calver'd salmon..now means, in the fish trade, only crimped salmon.
1855 T. B. 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 W. Kitchiner Cook's Oracle 178 (note) Calvered Salmon is the Salmon caught in the Thames, and cut into slices alive.
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