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.
1651–7. T. Barker, Art of Angling (1826), 8. We must have two dishes of calvored Trouts hot.
1691. Shadwell, Scowrers, II. Wks. 1720, IV. 330. Think on the Turbott and the Calvert Salmon at Locket’s.
1817. W. Tucker, in Kitchiner, Cook’s Oracle. Calvered Salmon is the salmon caught in the Thames, and cut into slices alive.
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.
