Obs. [The name of Waltham Chase, Hants.] Used attrib. in allusion to the disguise adopted by the poachers called ‘Waltham Blacks’: see BLACK sb. 6 b.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), V. 191. Such mean devices, such artful, such worse than Waltham disguises put on, to obtrude himself into my company.
