doily

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small ornamental piece of lace or linen or paper used to protect a surface from scratches by hard objects such as vases or bowls; or to decorate a plate of food.
    — She looked polite, and observed the oiled floors, hard-wood staircase, unused fireplace with tiles which resembled brown linoleum, cut-glass vases standing upon doilies, and the barred, shut, forbidding unit bookcases that were half filled with swashbuckler novels and unread-looking sets of Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Elbert Hubbard.
  2. A similar circular piece of lace worn as a head-covering by some married Jewish women. Judaism
  3. An old kind of woollen material. obsolete

词形变化

doilies plural doyley alternative doiley alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
doilied

词源

From Doiley, the name of a 17th-century London draper. The surname is Anglo-Norman, from d'Œuilly, name of several places in Calvados, from Old French oeil (“eye”).
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