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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
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: Dolly Varden trout
Quotations
1938
We're catching more and more trout in the river. Beautiful fat things, eight- and ten-pounders. Most are Dollies, the pink spots on their silver bodies reminding one of the Eastern brook trout.
1963
Some dollies taken, too, on the tidal reaches of the Squamish.