dowlas

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico. countable,historical,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

dowlases plural dowlass alternative

词源

Probably from Doullens, a town of Picardy, in France, formerly celebrated for this manufacture.
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