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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Even the coarsest dowlas, or sailcloth, was imported from the Low Countries.
From Men of Invention and Industry by Smiles, Samuel
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
You can swear that you did n't know her to be of finer weave than dowlas.
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 The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
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