doily

And seven petticoats beneath, so she seemed to skim just above the pile of the carpet, like a floating doily.

Gohar World, the New York-based tableware brand founded by Nadia Gohar, 34, and her sister, Laila, 35, sells a delicate lace bib for champagne bottles and an Italian lace bonbon “bonnet” — essentially a doily with compartments meant to hold individual chocolates.

Here are three of my favorites: Racegoer Lystra Adam in an explosion of sunshine-yellow, festooned with flowery pinwheels; racegoer Melanie Mar peering out from below a vast lavender rose, like she’s been wandering through an oversized garden; and an unidentified racegoer in a hat that impressively merges pearls, roses, a doily and numerous horse silhouettes.

The three Witchlings and the two older witches settled into cushiony floral chairs around a table covered with an old-fashioned doily tablecloth.

What Uncle Chester had lacked in niceties—Aunt Ivy would be horrified to find not one doily in the entire room—he’d made up for in reading materials.