dowlas
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dowlas
1485–95; after Daoulas in Brittany; replacing late Middle English douglas, popular substitution for dowlas
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You can swear that you did n't know her to be of finer weave than dowlas.
From To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston
Material for making garments included linen of several grades, blue linen for facing doublets, dowlas, canvas for sheets and shirts.
From Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Annie Lash Jester
Poorer folk went, like Thynne’s poor countryman, in shirts of “canvas hard and tough,” or of coarse Breton dowlas.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
Even the coarsest dowlas, or sailcloth, was imported from the Low Countries.
From Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
"Two bad half-crowns,—dowlas, filthy dowlas," was the answer.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Charles James Lever
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