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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I set a new dowlas lining in my camlet but this last week.
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
He was a tall man, with hair that was more red than brown, and he was dressed in a shirt of dowlas, leather breeches, and coarse plantation-made shoes and stockings.
From Audrey by Mary Johnston
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
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
"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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