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Dolly Varden   Listen
noun
Dolly Varden  n.  
1.
A character in Dickens's novel "Barnaby Rudge," a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons.
2.
A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women; also, a style of dress.
Dolly Varden trout (Zool.), a trout of northwest America; called also bull trout, malma, and red-spotted trout. See Malma.





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"Dolly Varden" Quotes from Famous Books



... before; but this was the first time I'd ever seen one that had draped herself in a rainbow. That's the only word for it. The thin, fluttery silk thing with the butterfly sleeves is shaded from cream white to royal purple, and underneath is one of these Dolly Varden gowns of flowered pink, set off by a Roman striped sash two feet wide. And when you add to that such details as gold shoes, pink silk stockin's, long pearl ear danglers, and a weird lid perched on a mountain of yellow hair—well, it's no wonder ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford


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