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countable and uncountable, plural dowlases
(historical) A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico. quotations
Mistress Quickly: I bought you / a dozen of shirts to your back.Falstaff: Dowlas, filthy dowlas. I have given them away / to bakers' wives. They have made bolters of them.
a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 3