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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A similar circular piece of lace worn as a head-covering by some married Jewish women.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Judaism
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noun
An old kind of woollen material.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: doyley, doyly
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Broader terms: linen
History
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”).
Across languages
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