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Doily

//ˈdɔɪli// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl wordnet
  3. 3
    A similar circular piece of lace worn as a head-covering by some married Jewish women. Judaism
  4. 4
    An old kind of woollen material. obsolete

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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