doyley
[ doi-lee ]
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How to use doyley in a sentence
How can a legal contract be like a doyley on the back of a chair?
Dangerous Ages | Rose MacaulayWhin the ould sow litters, doyley, it's sore perplexhed we'll be fer shlapin' room.
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York | Lemuel Ely QuiggBloom bent leopold ear, turning a fringe of doyley down under the vase.
Ulysses | James JoyceCol. Beeston seems to have harboured a peculiar spite against doyley.
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century | Clarence Henry HaringThe soldier, afterwards boasting that he had won this trophy, was reproved by doyley, who had seen the action.
British Dictionary definitions for doyley
doyley
/ (ˈdɔɪlɪ) /
noun
a variant spelling of doily
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