dowlas

American  

[dou-luhs] / ˈdaʊ ləs /

noun

1. a coarse linen or cotton cloth.

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Etymology

Origin of dowlas

1485–95; after Daoulas in Brittany; replacing late Middle English douglas, popular substitution for dowlas

Example Sentences

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

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 Jester, Annie Lash

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.

From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Haynie, Miriam

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

"Two bad half-crowns,—dowlas, filthy dowlas," was the answer.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James