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Dolly Varden   Listen
noun
Dolly Varden  n.  
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.





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"Dolly Varden" Quotes from Famous Books



... Dingwall in "Sketches by Boz," "very sentimental and romantic"; the tempery young Nickleby, who, at nineteen, thrashed Squeers; Barnaby Rudge, idiotic and very muscular; Joe Willet, persistently treated as a boy till he ran away to join the army and married Dolly Varden, perhaps the most exuberant, good-humored, and beautiful girl in all the Dickens gallery; Martin Chuzzlewit, who also ran away, as did David Copperfield, perhaps the most true to adolescence because largely reminiscent of the author's own life; Steerforth, a stranger from home, and ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall
... revolution broke athwart the length and breadth of fair France, relentless, and indomitable and irredeemable. Julie was arrested while blackberrying in a Dolly Varden hat. With a brave smile, Ben-Hepple tells us, she flung the berries away. "I am ...
— Terribly Intimate Portraits • Noel Coward


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