See dowd cap on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1881, William Carleton, The Works of William Carleton (page 178)",
"text": "[…] an old woman, whose grizzled locks had escaped from under her dowd cap […]"
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"ref": "1896, Michael Banim, The Ghost-hunter and His Family (page 49)",
"text": "[…] her dowd cap was replaced by one of the finest muslin, quilled to the front, terminating in a peak, and starched to a formidable degree of stiffness."
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