doily
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On a lace vintage doily, Simpson embroidered the Japanese proverb “Fall seven times, stand up eight,” a fitting metaphor for her metamorphosis as an artist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025
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
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
The man in front of me, his hair slick with brilliantine, adjusted his doily, pulled it down to his neck.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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
Red crocheted roses on bright green petals hemmed the doilies on the side tables.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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