Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cotton cloth woven with stripes of different thicknesses.

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Examples

  • Scarcely was the word Doria uttered -- I would sooner have seen my name inscribed in the infernal register than have heard yours thus mentioned -- scarcely was it uttered when Fiesco showed himself to the people.

    Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • Scarcely was the word Doria uttered -- I would sooner have seen my name inscribed in the infernal register than have heard yours thus mentioned -- scarcely was it uttered when Fiesco showed himself to the people.

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • The Doria is a dive that I will likely make at some point in my dive career.

    YesButNoButYes: Ten Awesome Sports Destinations 2007

  • If NUMA could raise the Titanic, the Doria should be a cinch.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • If NUMA could raise the Titanic, the Doria should be a cinch.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • If he has a measure of our sympathy in his feud with the younger Doria, that is only because Gianettino is portrayed as a vulgar brute deserving of nothing but the gallows.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901

  • The Admiral Barbarossa, eighty-four years of age, used to call Doria, his eternal rival nearly ninety years old, "my brother."

    Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • If he has a measure of our sympathy in his feud with the younger Doria, that is only because Gianettino is portrayed as

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

  • Corzine called Doria - a former Assembly speaker, former senator and former longtime Bayonne mayor - "a man of talent and dedication."

    unknown title 2009

  • "Doria," 38 years old, told me during a counseling session in Kando that her husband and children are disgusted by her and run far from her as she smells so terrible.

    Georgianne Nienaber: Witness to Rape in Congo: "What is the Future When the Heart of the Community is Broken?" 2008

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