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doily

[doi-lee] / ˈdɔɪ li /


NOUN
napkin
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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

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

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




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