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What (who) is Doily - definition
SMALL MAT, USUALLY OF CROCHET-WORK, LAID ON FURNITURE FOR DECORATION AND PROTECTION
Antimassacar; Doilies; Doyley; Doilie; Doiley; Doyly
![Eliza A. Jordson, Brooklyn L.I. 1848. Algae or seaweed specimen, pasted on colored construction paper, framed by paper lace doilies. [[Brooklyn Museum]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Algae or seaweed specimen, pasted on colored construction paper, framed by paper lace doilies. The algae have been arranged into designs and scenes, 1848.jpg?width=200 "Eliza A. Jordson, Brooklyn L.I. 1848. Algae or seaweed specimen, pasted on colored construction paper, framed by paper lace doilies. [[Brooklyn Museum]]")
doily
(doilies)
A doily is a small, round piece of paper or cloth that has a pattern of tiny holes in it. Doilies are put on plates under cakes and sandwiches.
N-COUNT
doily
['d??li]
¦ noun (plural doilies) a small ornamental mat made of lace or paper, put on a plate under sweet food.
Origin
C17 (orig. denoting a woollen material for summer wear): from Doiley or Doyley, the name of a 17th-cent. London draper.
doily
n. a lace; linen; paper doily
Wikipedia
Doily
A doily (also doiley, doilie, doyly, or doyley) is an ornamental mat, typically made of paper or fabric, and variously used for protecting surfaces or binding flowers, in food service presentation, or as a head covering or clothing ornamentation. It is characterized by openwork, which allows the surface of the underlying object to show through.
Examples of use of Doily
1. Permission to reprint/republish At the site, Father Guevara unfolds a small metal table, places a lace doily over it, and waits patiently for his flock.
2. It is a rare day in spring that does not dawn with bowl and doily spiders and darken with small brown bats.
3. In the basement of each glowing domicile, a "bowl and doily" spider sits waiting for a hapless aphid to entangle itself in the network of threads arched like an inverted cup over the sticky, horizontal sheetweb of its floor.
4. Last Tuesday, there came the unhappy realisation that every exit to the house was blocked by a huge, fly–strewn doily with a fat brown spider in the middle of it.
5. Here were some of the prettiest dresses of the week, some drop–waisted, some strapless, others with handkerchief hems almost all hems for next summer have dropped to the lower calf or lace, topped with lace doily or beaded cropped jackets and teamed with sheer leggings (which would be worrying if designers did not keep trotting them out to no avail). Rope–wedged metallic shoes and wrinkly cowboy boots confirmed that old tricks are often the best.