OED: Lochinvar

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  The name of the hero of a ballad in Sir Walter Scott's Marmion, used
allusively for a young male eloper; also transf. (see also quot. 1951).
 
  1879 C. M. YONGE Magnum Bonum I. xii. 233 His bride..had had a young
Lochinvar, and
even in her wedding dress, favoured by sympathising servants, had escaped down
the back
stairs of a London hotel, and been married at the nearest Church. 1890 ‘R.
BOLDREWOOD’
Colonial Reformer III. xxviii. 129 Much he marvelled at this Australian edition
of ‘Young
Lochinvar’. 1906 ‘O. HENRY’ Four Million (1916) 125 He..received the hearty
thanks of the
backyard Lochinvar. 1936 J. BUCHAN Island of Sheep ix. 170 The young Lochinvar
business
was rather out of my usual line. 1951 E. HILL Territory 311 Lochinvars sold the
women to the
drovers and the stations at £10 a head. Ibid. 444 Lochinvar, the, old time term
for catching
lubras to work cattle, etc. 1966 [see EXTRAMURAL a. b]. 1970 New Yorker 3 Oct.
83/1 The
majority of young artistic Lochinvars..have turned..to the tools and processes
of modern
industrial technology. 1972 ‘J. & E. BONETT’ No Time to Kill iv. 45 She
looked..expectant,
waiting..for the return of her young Lochinvar. But young Lochinvar..had found
another bride,
and she had married Eldred.

-from the OED.
-jill