DCHP-1 Online
Dolly Varden trout † [perhaps from a character in Dickens' Barnaby-Rudge, a coquette who wore a flowered dimity dress] 
a char, Salvelinus malma spectabilis, characterized by reddish-orange spots on an olive-green skin, found in western lakes and rivers and on the Pacific coast.
See also: bull trout Dolly Dolly Varden salmon trout (def. 2) sapi
- 1918 . . . these lakes are full of cutthroat trout, and what the whites call Dolly Varden trout, and whitefish.
- 1960 The Dolly Varden char . . . is found nearly everywhere . . . from the Queen Charlotte Islands to the Rockies. . . .
- 1918 . . . these lakes are full of cutthroat trout, and what the whites call Dolly Varden trout, and whitefish.