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Dolly Varden
[from the name of a character in Dickens's Barnaby Rudge.]
a. A print dress with a large flower pattern, worn with the skirt gathered up in loops.
b. A large hat, worn by women, with one side bent downwards, and abundantly trimmed with flowers.
c. A Californian species of trout or char.
[1841Dickens Barn. Rudge xix. 41 As to Dolly [Varden], there she was again..in a smart little cherry-coloured mantle, with a hood of the same drawn over her head, and..a little straw hat trimmed with cherry-coloured ribbons. ]1872A. Dobson Dial. from Plato iv. (St. Paul's Mag. Dec.), Blue eyes look doubly blue Beneath a Dolly Varden. 1872Harper's Weekly 25 May 407/4 Was ever any new costume more criticized than the new ‘Dolly Varden’. 1872E. Wordsworth Let. May in E. Romanes C. M. Yonge (1908) ix. 139 My hostess looking more like an old French marquise than ever in a red and black Dolly Varden dress, with pink skirt. 1876Yreka (Calif.) Union 3 June, The first spotted trout..were given the name of Dolly Vardens by Elda McCloud. 1877R. L. Price Two Americas 214 Large baskets of trout, among whom were many ‘Dolly Vardens’. Ibid. 215, Convinced that the ‘Dolly Varden’ is a genuine trout. 1881Mrs. E. Lynn Linton My Love I. 227 One would get one's self up to look awfully killing in a Dolly Varden. 1946Trail Riders Bull. Oct. 5/1 Dr. George Rae..landed four Dolly Vardens..during a special ‘time-out’ for the anglers. |