Meaning of dowlas | Babel Free

Definitions

A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico.

countable, historical, uncountable

Examples

“Mistress Quickly: I bought you / a dozen of shirts to your back. Falstaff: Dowlas, filthy dowlas. I have given them away / to bakers' wives. They have made bolters of them.”

CEFR level