doyley

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Bloom bent leopold ear, turning a fringe of doyley down under the vase. — Ulysses, James Joyce
{199a} Doiley, a seventeenth-century linen-draper,—probably “Thomas Doyley, at the Nun, in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden,”—invented stuffs which “might at once be cheap and genteel” (Spectator, No. — The Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift

doily, doyly

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