Definition of "doilies" [doilies]

• Plural form of doily. (noun)

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• "Just the word doilies makes us start sneezing from the thought of dust."
• "Though they were poor, they left behind wonderful creative hand work such as doilies and quilts."
• "They seem to specialise in shops selling kitsch - teddy bears of all descriptions; lace items that no-one uses any more such as doilies, tablecloths and those things that your grandmother used to put on the top of the milk bottle to keep the flies off; white-painted wire decorative things that look like recycled aviaries."