Usually means: Traditional, colorful, layered Victorian dress.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dolly Varden: Merriam-Webster
  2. Dolly Varden: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Dolly Varden: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Dolly Varden: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Dolly Varden: Wordnik
  6. Dolly Varden: Wiktionary
  7. Dolly Varden: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Dolly Varden: Dictionary.com
  9. Dolly Varden (band), Dolly Varden (character), Dolly Varden (costume), Dolly Varden: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Dolly Varden: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Dolly Varden: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. dolly varden: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Dolly Varden: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Dolly Varden: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Varden, Dolly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dolly Varden: A Word A Day
  2. Dolly Varden: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dolly varden: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dolly Varden)

noun:  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.
noun:  A large hat, one side bent downwards, abundantly trimmed with flowers.
noun:  Short for Dolly Varden crab. [A crab of the species Hepatus epheliticus.]
noun:  Short for Dolly Varden trout. [A salmonid fish, Salvelinus malma, native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.]

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