Material for making garments included linen of several grades, blue linen for facing doublets, dowlas, canvas for sheets and shirts. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
The net for this should be made of strong wire in the shape of the net at Fig. 46, or 43, if without the joints, a bag of strong dowlas and a stick are attached, and the front square-ended part is pushed by the collector through the grass, in order to trap any low feeding or invisible insects. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
In the outer room, apparently a storeroom, there was, in accordance with the practice of planters to keep a supply of materials on hand, a quantity of piece-goods in dowlas, lockram, dimity, coarse Holland, fine Holland and tufted Holland, osnaburg and kersey, and seventeen ells (45 inches in English measure and 27 inches in Dutch measure) of sheeting, as well as yarn stockings. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
I set a new dowlas lining in my camlet but this last week. From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
You can swear that you did n't know her to be of finer weave than dowlas. From Wordnik.com. [To Have and to Hold] Reference
Even the coarsest dowlas, or sailcloth, was imported from the Low Countries. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference
dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given them away to bakers 'wives, and they have made bolters of them. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part of King Henry IV] Reference
dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given them away to bakers wives, and they have made bolters of them. From Wordnik.com. [Act III. Scene III. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference
In perfect silence, he went to the pigsty; and lancing each foot and both ears of the pig, he allowed the blood to run into a piece of common dowlas. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
And forth she holdeth a parcel which, being oped, did disclose a right warm thick hood of black serge, lined with flannel and dowlas, mighty comfortable-looking. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall] Reference
He was a tall man, with hair that was more red than brown, and he was dressed in a shirt of dowlas, leather breeches, and coarse plantation-made shoes and stockings. From Wordnik.com. [Audrey] Reference
Of course I do conceive that I am descended to a lower point than heretofore -- you have no coach, I dare wager? yet I looked not to find my new kin donned in sorry camlet and mean dowlas. From Wordnik.com. [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference
"Ane large bed, ane flock bed, ane trundle bed, ane chest, ane trunk, ane leather cairpet, sax cawfskin chairs an 'twa-three rush, five pair o' sheets an 'auchteen dowlas napkins, sax alchemy spunes.". From Wordnik.com. [To Have and to Hold] Reference
The linen tablecloth was either of holland, huckaback, dowlas, osnaburg, or lockram -- all heavy and comparatively coarse materials -- or of fine damask, just as to-day; some of the handsome board-cloths were even trimmed with lace. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
He had a strong common sense, like that which Rose Flammock, the weaver's daughter, in Scott's romance, commends in her father, as resembling a yardstick, which, whilst it measures dowlas and diaper, can equally well measure tapestry and cloth of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Excursions] Reference
One with a shirt of coarsest dowlas, and a filthy rag tying up a broken head, yet wore velvet breeches, and wiped the sweat from his face with a wrought handkerchief; the other topped a suit of shreds and patches with a fine bushy ruff, and swung from one ragged shoulder a cloak of grogram lined with taffeta. From Wordnik.com. [To Have and to Hold] Reference
Nor can I remember, without laughing, the innocent admiration, not without a spice of envy, with which we poor girls, whose church-going clothes did not rise above dowlas shifts and stuff gowns, beplaced with silver: all which we imagined grew in London, and entered for a great deal into my determination of trying to come in for my share of them. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749)] Reference
dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given them away to bakers’ wives, and they have made bolters of them. From Wordnik.com. [The first part of King Henry the Fourth] Reference
A pair of dowlas trowsers. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
20. dowlas. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
A small parcell dowlas. From Wordnik.com. [Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents] Reference
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