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单词 dowsabel
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dowsabeln.

Brit. /ˈduːsəbɛl/, /ˈdaʊsəbɛl/, U.S. /ˈdusəˌbɛl/, /ˈdaʊsəˌbɛl/
Forms: 1600s dousabell, 1600s dousabella, 1600s 2000s– dowsabell, 1600s– dowsabel.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Dowsabel.
Etymology: < the female forename Dowsabel (also Dowsabell, Dousabella), probably < Anglo-Norman and Old French douce douce adj. + -abel (in the female forenames Amabel , Isabel , Mirabel ), perhaps originally as the name of a character in a lost romance; later apprehended as a compound of French douce douce adj. + belle (see bel adj.).Attested as the name of a stock literary character in English pastoral poetry and songs from the late 16th cent. onwards; compare:1593 M. Drayton Idea viii. sig. J2v He had as antique stories tell, A daughter cleaped Dowsabell. Compare also the fully Latinized form Dulcibella, used in the same way from the late 17th cent. onwards.
Chiefly poetic and literary. Now rare.
A young country girl; a female sweetheart, typically from the countryside. Cf. Phillis n.
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1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. iii. sig. G3 A doughtie Don is taken, with my Dol; And thou maist make his ransome, what thou wilt, My Dousabell.
a1652 R. Brome Eng. Moor iii. iii. 48 in Five New Playes (1659) [Women] Of all conditions, from the Doxie to the Dowsabel.
1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 75 Give me her for my Dowsabel.
1840 J. A. Longworth Year among Circassians I. xiii. 269 A number of half-veiled, loosely-clad dowsabels, of truly Amazonian proportions..were busily at work over their milk-pails.
1880 Family Herald 45 43 Love's elixir potent wine is, While the sirens weave their spells—Pale or painted city Phrynes, Red and rustic Dowsabels.
1946 J. C. Nolan Gather ye Rosebuds viii. 77 Mind those red skirts on the mudguard, Sid!.. All in, my dowsabels?
2003 D. Solway Director's Cut 46 Myriad sampler articles written by the bit players and small-time brokers who effectively do the bidding..of donnish swains and dowsabells.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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