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   Dolly Varden . 
   A character in Dickens's novel “Barnaby Rudge,” a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons.
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   A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women; also, a style of dress.
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   Dolly Varden trout (Zool.), a trout of northwest America; -- called also bull trout, malma, and red-spotted trout. See Malma.
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   malma , n. (Zool.) A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.
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