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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Doll Money

A lady of Duxford left a sum of money to be given away annually in the parish, and to be called Doll Money. Doll is a corruption of dole, Saxon dál (a share distributed).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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