The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dolly Varden \Dol"ly Var"den\
A character in Dickens's novel ``Barnaby Rudge,'' a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons.
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A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women; also, a style of dress.
Dolly Varden trout (Zo["o]l.), a trout of northwest America; -- called also bull trout, malma, and red-spotted trout. See Malma.
Wikipedia
Dolly Varden was a character in Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens. Many things were named after her. Some of them are:
Dolly Varden is a Chicago band built around the singing and songwriting of husband and wife duo Steve Dawson and Diane Christiansen. Their music combines elements of folk, rock and pop and country. The band has released 5 albums, along with several collections and side projects. They have recorded for Undertow Music since 2002.
A Dolly Varden costume is a woman's outfit that was briefly fashionable from about 1869 to 1875 in Britain and the United States.
Usage examples of "dolly varden".
Solly knew how very much his mother minded lateness, and how much more she would mind it if she suspected that he was walking in the moonlight with a girl who was, in her opinion, a regular Dolly Varden.
As 1 stared uncomprehendingly at the dove-grey walls and the gilt rococo panelling, at the Dolly Varden dressing-table and the comfortable armchair standing on the thick-piled carpet, it hit me suddenly.
There's the beginners' slopes, the Muskeg, Dolly Varden, and Sourdough .
Trixie came in with a flounce of her Dolly Varden skirts to ask what they were drinking back there.
He wondered what that sassy walking gal down yonder in the Dolly Varden skirts would say if she knew what was going on up here behind these nigh transparent curtains.
A little stream that feeds into Fish Lake has Dolly Varden trout in it.