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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A colorfully spotted trout (Salvelinus malma) of northwest North America and eastern Asia.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A woman's gown of gay-flowered material, usually a muslin print, made with a pointed bodice and a skirt tucked up or draped over a petticoat of solid color: worn about 1865-70.
  2. n. A species of trout or char of California, Salvelinus malma.
  3. n. A large hat with a brim overloaded with flowers, worn at one time by women.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A woman's outfit, briefly fashionable in Britain and America in the late nineteenth century, with a brightly patterned, usually flowered, dress with a polonaise overskirt gathered up and draped over a separate underskirt.
  2. n. Salvelinus malma malma, a fish in the salmon family.

GNU Webster's 1913

  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.

Etymologies

  1. After a lively, coquettish character in Dickens' novel Barnaby Rudge. (Wiktionary)
  2. After Dolly Varden, a character known for her colorful costume in the novel Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • hernesheir In my area, now called bull trout, just to further confuse the name of this threatened species of char. Last winter I caught and released a big one while fishing for steelhead in Idaho's Salmon River. Jan 14, 2013

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