Dolly Vardens

A form of Dolly Varden — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Dolly Varden
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