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dowds
n. (plural of dowd English)
Usage examples of "dowds".
Don’t be vexed with me, Serena, but it is not only a parcel of Bath dowds who think it a fast thing for you to do!
The only person of experience to draw on the curb-rein was Mrs Bagshot, and since Sherry had freely stigmatized this lady and all her daughters as a parcel of dowds it was not surprising that Hero should not have attended to the severe lecture Cousin Jane read her.