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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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 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
The linen tablecloth was either of holland, huckaback, dowlas, osnaburg, or lockram—all heavy and comparatively coarse materials—or of fine damask, just as to-day; some of the handsome board-cloths were even trimmed with lace.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Earle, Alice Morse
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 King Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare, William
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