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Dolly Varden, daughter of Gabriel Varden, locksmith. She was loved to distraction by Joe Willet, Hugh of the Maypole inn, and Simon Tappertit. Dolly dressed in the Watteau style, and was lively, pretty, and bewitching.—Dickens: Barnaby Rudge (1841).

Dolman, a light-blue loose-fitting jacket, braided across the front with black silk frogs, and embroidered from the cuffs almost to the shoulders with gold lace of three rows interwoven. It is used as the summer jacket of the Algerian native troops. The winter jacket is called a “pelisse.”

Dolon, “a man of subtle wit and wicked mind, ” father of Guizor (groom of Pollentê the Saracen, lord of “Parlous Bridge”). Sir Artegal, with scant ceremony, knocks the life out of Guizor, for demanding of him “passage-penny” for crossing the bridge. Soon afterwards, Britomart and Talus rest in Dolon’s castle for the night, and Dolon, mistaking Britomart for sir Artegal, sets upon her in the middle of the night, but is over-mastered. He now runs with his two surviving sons to the bridge, to prevent the passage of Britomart and Talus; but Britomart runs one of them through with her spear, and knocks the other into the river.—Spenser: Faërie Queene, v. 6 (1596).

Dolon and Ulysses. Dolon undertook to enter the Greek camp and bring back to Hector an exact account of everything. Accordingly he put on a wolf’s skin and prowled about the camp on all-fours. Ulysses saw through the disguise, and said to Diomed, “Yonder man is from the host … we’ll let him pass a few paces, and then pounce on him unexpectedly.” They soon caught the fellow, and having “pumped” out of him all about the Trojan plans, and the arrival of Rhesus, Diomed smote him with his falchion on the mid-neck and slew him. This is the subject of bk. x. of the Iliad, and therefore this book is called “Dolonia” (“the deeds of Dolon”) or “Dolophonia” (“Dolon’s murder”).

Full of cunning, like Ulysses’ whis le
When he allured poor Dolon.
   —Eyron: Don Juan, xiii. 105 (1824).

Dolopatos, the Sicilian king, who placed his son Lucien under the charge of “seven wise masters.” When grown to man’s estate, Lucien’s stepmother made improper advances to him, which he repulsed; and she accused him to the king of insulting her. By astrology the prince discovered that if he could tide over seven days his life would be saved; so the wise masters amused the king with seven tales, and the king relented. The prince himself then told a tale which embodied his own history; the eyes of the king were opened, and the queen was condemned to death.—Sandabar’s Parables (French version).