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Dolly Varden definition

Dolly Var·den (däl′ē)

  1. a dress of sheer figured muslin worn over a bright-colored petticoat
  2. ☆ a red-spotted trout (Salvelinus malma) found in streams west of the Rocky Mountains and in E Asia

Etymology: after the character in Dickens' Barnaby Rudge

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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