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doily, n. or a.|ˈdɔɪlɪ|
Also doiley, doyly, -ley, erron. d'Oyley, d'oylie.
[from personal surname Doiley or Doyley.
1712Budgell Spect. No. 283 ⁋18 The famous Doily is still fresh in every one's Memory, who raised a Fortune by finding out Materials for such Stuffs as might at once be cheap and genteel. 1727Sir H. Sloane in Phil. Trans. XXXIV. 222 Mr. Doyly, (who was a great searcher after Curiosities, and gave Name to a sort of Stuffs worn in Summer). 1750–1800Pegge MS. Note (Skeat, Philol. Trans. 1885, 91) Doyley kept a Linnen-draper's shop in the Strand, a little West of Catherine Street.]
†1. attrib. or adj. The name of a woollen stuff, ‘at once cheap and genteel’, introduced for summer wear in the latter part of the 17th c. Obs.
1678Dryden Kind Keeper iv. i, Some Doily Petticoats, and Manto's we have. 1697Lond. Gaz. No. 3293/4 A sad colour Doyly Drugget new Coat. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull i. vi, His children were reduced from rich silks to Doily stuffs. 1713Addison Guardian No. 102 ⁋2 Summer has often caught me in my Drap de Berry, and winter in my Doily suit. 1714Gay Trivia i. 43 Now in thy trunk the D'oily habit fold, The silken drugget ill can fence the cold.
2. a. n. (Originally doily-napkin.) A small ornamental napkin used at dessert.
1711Swift Jrnl. to Stella 23 Apr., After dinner we had coarse Doiley-napkins, fringed at each end, upon the table to drink with. 1785–95Wolcott (P. Pindar) Lousiad ii. Wks. I. 243 Who dares with Doylies des'perate war to wage. 1798Gentl. Mag. LXVIII. ii. 755/2 Thus also the small table napkin called a D'Oyley. 1802S. Rogers in Clayden Early Life (1887) 437 After dinner [in Paris] she threw about her some ugly and dirty English doyleys, which she also explained as the English fashion, and of which I felt quite ashamed. 1855H. Martineau Autobiog. (1877) I. 68, I had been picking at the fringe of my doily.
b. A small ornamental mat made of paper, linen, etc., used on a plate beneath sandwiches, cakes, etc.
1864Hist. North-Western Soldiers' Fair 89 [Donations] 2 cake doylies. 1905‘P. Pennington’ Woman Rice Planter (1913) 197 You fill a basket, put a dainty doily over it. 1936W. Holtby South Riding iv. ii. 218 The cheese cakes and lemon tarts lay on frilled netted d'oylies. 1954J. Betjeman Few Late Chrysanthemums 95 Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doileys With afternoon tea-cakes and scones. 1958Times 12 Nov. 3/4 His [sc. Magritte's] little painting of a figure cut out of a paper doily about to smash the head of another paper-doily figure between two very solid rocks. |