dowlas
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dowlas
1485–95; after Daoulas in Brittany; replacing late Middle English douglas, popular substitution for dowlas
Example Sentences
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And forth she holdeth a parcel which, being oped, did disclose a right warm thick hood of black serge, lined with flannel and dowlas, mighty comfortable-looking.
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah
"Two bad half-crowns,—dowlas, filthy dowlas," was the answer.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James
The modern dowlas is a good, strong and closely woven linen fabric.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
"Ane large bed, ane flock bed, ane trundle bed, ane chest, ane trunk, ane leather cairpet, sax cawfskin chairs an' twa-three rush, five pair o' sheets an' auchteen dowlas napkins, sax alchemy spunes"— Phyllis.
From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary
Dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given them away to bakers' wives, and they have made bolters of them.
From King Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare, William
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