dowlas
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English
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Etymology
Probably from Doullens, a town of Picardy, in France, formerly celebrated for this manufacture.
Noun
dowlas (countable and uncountable, plural dowlases)
- (historical) A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico.
- a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 3:
- Mistress Quickly: I bought you / a dozen of shirts to your back.
Falstaff: Dowlas, filthy dowlas. I have given them away / to bakers' wives. They have made bolters of them.