[name of Queen Victoria’s residence in Scotland.] Used as a specific name of: a. A variety of Scotch cap. b. A kind of figured woollen petticoat. c. A kind of boot lacing in front.
1864. Locker, Lond. Lyrics (1876), 43. I know that when they walk in grass, she wears Balmorals.
1867. F. Ludlow, Brace of Boys, 263. A skirt of garnet silk looped up over a pretty Balmoral.
1867. Mrs. Whitney, Summer L. Goldthwaite’s Life, 77. It was nice … to have got her feet into rosetted slippers instead of heavy balmoral boots.
