"dowlas" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Doullens, a town of Picardy, in France, formerly celebrated for this manufacture.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dowlases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "dowlas (countable and uncountable, plural dowlases)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fabrics",
          "orig": "en:Fabrics",
          "parents": [
            "Materials",
            "Manufacturing",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 3",
          "text": "Mistress Quickly: I bought you / a dozen of shirts to your back.\nFalstaff: Dowlas, filthy dowlas. I have given them away / to bakers' wives. They have made bolters of them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico."
      ],
      "id": "en-dowlas-en-noun-Eod0QQKG",
      "links": [
        [
          "coarse",
          "coarse"
        ],
        [
          "linen",
          "linen"
        ],
        [
          "cloth",
          "cloth"
        ],
        [
          "calico",
          "calico"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "historical",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dowlas"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably from Doullens, a town of Picardy, in France, formerly celebrated for this manufacture.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dowlases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "dowlas (countable and uncountable, plural dowlases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Fabrics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 3",
          "text": "Mistress Quickly: I bought you / a dozen of shirts to your back.\nFalstaff: Dowlas, filthy dowlas. I have given them away / to bakers' wives. They have made bolters of them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "coarse",
          "coarse"
        ],
        [
          "linen",
          "linen"
        ],
        [
          "cloth",
          "cloth"
        ],
        [
          "calico",
          "calico"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "historical",
        "uncountable"
      ],
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}