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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Cate is bringing to her bridegroom more than had been looked for—dowlas sheets and blankets, spun and woven under their own cottage roof, and a good flock bed and pillows from the same source.
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Fame may be all very well in its way, but it butters no parsnips; and, if I am to be famous, I would much rather case my renown in fine linen than in filthy dowlas.
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Dowlas, dowlas, n. a coarse linen cloth.
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The list of clothing might include a coat of frieze, a pair of leather breeches, a black hat, or cap of fur, a pair of "wooden heel shoes," and underclothes of dowlas and lockram.
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Dowlas, a kind of coarse linen formerly much used by working people for shirts; this use of it is now generally superseded by calico.—Cf.
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