dowlas
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico.
— 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.
词源
Probably from Doullens, a town of Picardy, in France, formerly celebrated for this manufacture.
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