Dolly Varden

English

Etymology

After a lively, coquettish character in Dickens' novel Barnaby Rudge.

Noun

Dolly Varden (plural Dolly Vardens)

  1. A woman's outfit, briefly fashionable in Britain and America in the late nineteenth century, with a brightly patterned, usually flowered, dress with a polonaise overskirt gathered up and draped over a separate underskirt.
  2. A large hat, one side bent downwards, abundantly trimmed with flowers.
  3. Salvelinus malma, a trout.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Dolly Varden in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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