Crossword clues for doily
doily
- Lace work
- Frilly mat
- Embroidered mat
- Dainty table decoration
- Mat used to protect furniture
- Lacy place mat
- Item in some place settings
- Handwork creation
- Tatted mat
- Tatted covering
- Result of tatting, perhaps
- Lacy table mat
- Lacy creation
- Handwork item
- End table protector
- Embroidered ornament
- Embroidered napkin
- Dinner-table protector
- Dining adornment
- Decoration under a bowl
- Dainty mat
- Crocheting project
- Crocheter's creation
- Crocheted mat
- Dining table decoration
- Frilly place mat
- Lace place mat
- Lace mat
- Bit of crochet work
- Valentine embellishment
- Decoration under a dish
- A small round piece of linen place under a dish or bowl
- Place mat
- Small mat
- Item under a vase
- Table mat
- Small napkin
- Lacy, ornamental mat
- Table linen
- Finger-bowl accessory
- Part of a place setting
- Paper mat
- Decorative mat
- Lacy mat
- Furniture protector
- Dainty embroidered mat
- Ornamental mat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doily \Doi"ly\, n. [So called from the name of the dealer.]
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A kind of woolen stuff. [Obs.] ``Some doily petticoats.''
--Dryden.A fool and a doily stuff, would now and then find days of grace, and be worn for variety. -- Congreve.
A small napkin, used at table with the fruit, etc.; -- commonly colored and fringed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1714, short for doily-napkin (1711), from doily "thin, woolen fabric;" supposedly from Doiley, surname of a 17c.-early 18c. dry-goods dealer on London's Strand. Doily earlier meant "genteel, affordable woolens" (1670s), evidently from the same source. The surname is d'Ouilly, from one of several places called Ouilly in Normandy.
Wiktionary
n. 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.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A doily (also doiley, doilie, doyly, doyley) is an ornamental mat, typically made of paper or fabric, and variously used for protecting surfaces or binding flowers, in food service presentation, or as a head covering or clothing ornamentation. It is characterized by openwork, which allows the surface of the underlying object to show through.
Usage examples of "doily".
Glazed eyeballs on paper doilies, a big liver like a brazil-nut, crunchy marrow-filled femurs, a row of bean-shaped kidneys, a king-size penis coyly curled against its testicles, chewy ropes of muscles, big squares of skin rolled up like apricot leather?
Nella folded the doily and slipped it into her pocket, Dari walked by.
I followed her and, in the guise of being helpful, began to set out cups and saucers, arranging Pepperidge Farm cookies on plates lined with paper doilies while she hauled out the big stainless-steel coffee urn that usually sat in the office.
White lace doilies lay like winter snowflakes on all the arms of the furniture, and linen antimacassars anachronistically protected the upholstered backs from men who no longer slicked their hair with Macassar oil.
He was almost glad the house was so dark because he felt ridiculous: sitting here in his blacked-out raid wear, Kevlar vest, and bloused BDU pants, surrounded by lace antimacassars, crochet work, and frilly doilies.
Among the crocheted doilies of missionary artisanship and hammered copper plates representing idealized tribal maidens or trumpeting elephants that were African bourgeois taste, there hung in the dimness Edward Lear watercolours of Italy and Stubbs sporting prints swollen with humidity and spotted as blighted leaves.
White lace doilies lay like winter snowflakes on all the arms of the furniture, and linen antimacassars anachronistically protected the upholstered backs from men who no longer slicked their hair with Macassar oil.
There was a lot of life to see less than a few feet from his nose: tiny crustaceans crawling through the gently bobbing mat, the flash of falling sunlight off the silver sides of small fish, the fine patterns of jellyfish drifting near the surface like abandoned, sodden doilies of fine lace.
He was almost glad the house was so dark because he felt ridiculous: sitting here in his blacked-out raid wear, Kevlar vest, and bloused BDU pants, surrounded by lace antimacassars, crochet work, and frilly doilies.
There were crocheted doilies on tables and cabinets, crocheted cushions on overstuffed chairs.
And there are nylon voiles on the windows, and a set of doilies under the glass of the dressing table.
Green plants hung above the windows, and crocheted doilies dotted an antique buffet and secretarys desk.
Sheets, pillow cases, blankets, bedspreads, dish towels, napkins, doilies.
I sat down, then stood up, straightening the crocheted doily on the back of the chair.
The house seemed nude without the statues and without the doilies and the crocheted covers on the cannisters and the patchwork rugs.