doily

English

Alternative forms

• doyley

Etymology

From Doiley, the name of a 17th-century London draper. The surname is (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman, from d’ Ouilly, name of several places in Calvados, from Old French oeil (“eye”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔɪli/

Noun

doily (plural doilies)

1. A small ornamental piece of lace or linen or paper used to protect a surface from scratches by hard objects such as vases or bowls; or to decorate a plate of food.
2. (obsolete) An old kind of woollen material.

Translations

ornamental piece

• Dutch: onderlegger (nl) m
• Finnish: pitsiliina, alusliina
• French: napperon (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Deckchen (de) n
• Greek: πετσετάκι (el) n (petsetáki), σεμεδάκι (el) n (semedáki)
• Russian: салфе́тка (ru) f (salfétka)
• Swedish: tårtpapper (sv) n

Further reading

doily on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Lower, Mark Antony (1860): Patronymica Britannica: A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom