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発音

• IPA: /ˈdaʊl/
• 韻: -aʊl
• Homophone: dowel

名詞

dowle

1. feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     You fools! I and my fellows
     Are ministers of fate: the elements
     Of whom your swords are temper'd may as well
     Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
     Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
     One dowle that's in my plume; […]

   • a. 1859, De Quincey, Notes on Godwin Foster and Hazlitt, at page 304 in the collected works' volume of 1864.

     No feather, or dowle of a feather, but was heavy enough for him.

別の表記

• dowl, doul

語源 2

発音

• 韻: -aʊli

名詞

dowle (plural dowles)

1. (India, historical or archaic) Alternative form of dooly (“basic Indian litter”)

参照

• “dowle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• dowel, lowed, owled, wolde