dowd cap

English

Noun

dowd cap (plural dowd caps)

  1. (obsolete) A woman's nightcap.
    • 1881, William Carleton, The Works of William Carleton (page 178)
      […] an old woman, whose grizzled locks had escaped from under her dowd cap […]
    • 1896, Michael Banim, The Ghost-hunter and His Family (page 49)
      […] 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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