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

S. To Adriana! that is where we dined, 110 Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband: She is too big, I hope, for me to compass.

From Project Gutenberg

He is not ashamed to allude directly to Spenser; and indeed his direct debts are limited to a few scattered phrases, as in the Ballad of Dowsabel.

From Project Gutenberg