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dowd cap

noun

Definitions

  1. A woman's nightcap.

    • […] an old woman, whose grizzled locks had escaped from under her dowd cap […]
    • […] 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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