doily
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Doiley, the name of a 17th-century London draper. The surname is Anglo-Norman, from d' Ouilly, name of several places in Calvados, from Old French oeil (“eye”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɔɪli/
Noun
doily (plural doilies)
Translations
References
- Lower, Mark Antony (1860): Patronymica Britannica: A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom
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