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.
© Webster 1913.