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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(historical) A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico..
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.
Use dowlas when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dowlas means (historical) A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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