trolly lolly n.
a type of lace, coarsely made but once very fashionable.
[ | ![]() | Misogonus in Six Anon. Plays (1906) II ii: Our comfort lies In sporting and in dancing [...] With Bess and Nell we love to dwell / In kissing and in haking; / But whoopho, holly! with trolly lolly! / To them we’ll now be walking]. |
![]() | Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Trolly-lolly, coarse Lace once much in fashion, now worn only by the meaner sort. | |
![]() | in Pills to Purge Melancholy II 345: Some Freeholder’s fresh Spouse, some Rosebush Dolly / Must do’t, no Covent-Garden Trolly Lolly. | |
![]() | New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Friar and Boy 35: Likewise the friar who / Had tore his very double tripes, / His trolly-lollies too. |