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Definition of: Dolly Varden
(vär′dən)
1. A dress with a printed or figured design, worn over a petticoat of a plain color.
2. A woman's large, flower–trimmed hat.
3. A salmonoid fish (Salvelinus malma) of the Rocky Mountain streams, having red spots on the back and sides and resembling the eastern brook trout: also Dolly Varden trout. [after Dolly Varden, a character in Dickens' Barnaby Rudge]
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