Dolly Varden

Meanings

1. 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. A large hat, one side bent downwards, abundantly trimmed with flowers.
3. Ellipsis of Dolly Varden crab.
4. Ellipsis of Dolly Varden trout.

Etymology

After a lively, coquettish character in Charles Dickens' novel Barnaby Rudge.