dowsabel

American  

[dou-suh-bel] / ˈdaʊ səˌbɛl /

noun

Obsolete.

1. sweetheart.

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dowsabel British  

/ ˈdaʊs-, ˈduːsəˌbɛl /

noun

1. an obsolete word for sweetheart

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Etymology

Origin of dowsabel

1575–85; ≪ Latin Dulcibella woman's name. See dulcet, belle

Example Sentences

What about being described as "dowsabel" or as a "percher"?

From BBC

"Dowsabel" is "applied generically to a sweetheart, 'lady-love'".

From BBC

The old nurse immediately folded him to her broad bosom, patted him on the back, and said, “Them, there, my dowsabel. It’s the same story Sir Ector told me when I caught him with a blue eye, gone forty years. Nothing like a good family for sticking to a good lie. There, my innocent you come along of me to the kitchen and well slap a nice bit of steak across him in no time. But you hadn’t ought to fight with people bigger than yourself.”

From Literature

The long but impetuous lines, such as 'Trim up her golden tresses with Apollo's sacred tree', afford a striking contrast to the archaic romance-metre, derived from Sir Thopas and its fellows, which appears in Dowsabel, and it again to the melancholy, murmuring cadences of the lament for Elphin.

From Project Gutenberg

In the metre of the poem Drayton again echoes that of the older romances, as he did in Dowsabel.

From Project Gutenberg