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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Prob. fr.

Doullens

, a town of Picardy, in France, formerly celebrated for this manufacture.]

A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico.

Shak.

Noun.

A kind of coarse linen cloth.

dowlas ‎(countable and uncountable, plural dowlases)

A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico.
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