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Webster 1913 Edition


Dolly Varden

Dol′ly Var′den

.
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
.