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• a variation of doily.

doyley

American  

[doi-lee] / ˈdɔɪ li /

noun

• doyleys
  plural

1. a variant of doily.

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doyley British  

/ ˈdɔɪlɪ /

noun

1. a variant spelling of doily

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• doyleys
  plural

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Example Sentences

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doyley doyleys

How can a legal contract be like a doyley on the back of a chair?

From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay

Each person at once removes the bowl and doyley to make ready for whatever is to be put on the plate.

From Etiquette by Agnes H. Morton

She was carrying very carefully a little tray covered with a snow-white doyley, and on it were a glass of milk and a plate of mulberries.

From Seven Little Australians by Ethel Sybil Turner

One had the little doyley Angela had first recognised, another reluctantly produced a silver folding fruit-knife with 'C. Ashe' engraved on the handle.

From The Carroll Girls by Mabel Quiller-Couch

If the finger-glass and doyley are placed on your dessert-plate, you should immediately remove the doyley to the left of your plate, and place the finger-glass upon it.

From Routledge's Manual of Etiquette by George Routledge

Pretty little fanciful doyleys are now also put under the finger- bowl, merely to be looked at.

From Manners and Social Usages by Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

Four needles are employed for stockings, five for doyleys and other round articles.

From The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. by Unknown

But they are never used at a "stand-up" breakfast, nor are doyleys or finger- bowls.

From Manners and Social Usages by Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

And I'm sure I was ashamed to see she had put out those old-fashioned doyleys with the finger-glasses.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 25, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

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