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doily

[doi-lee] / ˈdɔɪ li /


NOUN
napkin
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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

Chennai Hoppers serves the dish, distinguished by its soft center and edges like a doily, with a mild curry, cardamom-flavored milk and the option of an egg on top.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2021

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 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 set the glass on a doily on the bedside table and turn to leave.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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

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

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2022

And his supports were similarly humble: restaurant tip trays, scraps of wood, paper doilies, cheap frames with the price sticker still attached, bottle caps, even pistachio shells.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2019

There were always aromas of tasty dishes, flowers cut from our backyard in vases, doilies that Grandma India crocheted on tables, and squares of tapestry she had made on the walls.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals


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