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Brewer's: 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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