doily
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
/ˈdɔɪli/
Definition of doily
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
“Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doileys / With afternoon tea-cakes and scones.”
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noun
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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.”
“Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doileys / With afternoon tea-cakes and scones.”
- (Judaism)A similar circular piece of lace worn as a head-covering by some married Jewish women.
- (obsolete)An old kind of woollen material.
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Etymology
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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