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- noun Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather.
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- noun
feathery orwoolly down ;filament of afeather
Etymologies
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Examples
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One dowle [434-16] that's in my plume: my fellow-ministers
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Minister of fate against the great criminal, it joins itself with the "incensed seas and shores" -- the sword that layeth at it cannot hold, and may "with bemocked-at stabs as soon kill the still-closing waters, as diminish one dowle that is in its plume."
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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Having invited him and his women to a banquet, which his brother requited by a similar entertainment, he substituted chosen soldiers well armed instead of women, sending them two and two in a _dowle_, [256] who, getting in by this device, gained possession of the gates, and held the place for the Great Mogul, to whom it now appertains, being one of the strongest situated forts in the world.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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1598: One dowle that's in my plumbe: My fellow ministers
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-- E.] [Footnote 256: A dowle, dowly, or dooly, is a chair or cage, in which their women are carried on men's shoulders.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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One dowle that’s in my plume: my fellow-ministers 65
The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590
fbharjo commented on the word dowle
fringe feather
August 25, 2009