doily

Kaur's exhibition includes family photos, an Axminster carpet, a vintage car covered in a giant doily and kinetic handbells.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024

Some fell vertically like the traditional jabot, and others encircled her neck like a lace doily.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2020

But there’s nothing old-fashioned about a few heartfelt lines written out on a piece of paper — doily optional.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2020

When the novel begins, in nineteen-sixties England, she is a young homemaker with the personality of a lace doily: decorous, brittle, self-consciously antiquated.

From The New Yorker ● May 11, 2019

I wondered if she would put my doily on her dining-room table.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

While live on the show, James produced "two little doilies", which he took as keepsakes from the day.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

She filled the place with antiques and doilies and Victorian-era wedding photos — some of which she bought on EBay — with unsmiling brides and grooms.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2023

Valeria visits her mother, who sits in judgmental silence, crocheting doilies and coasters and place mats.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023

It is doilies, snails, and DIY fairy spoons crafted from seashells.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2022

Would I next see birds flying backward, or cows crocheting doilies?

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson