doily
daw i lee
- n a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl
- She praises a Jewish upbringing that on holidays "gave me the opportunity to dress like a doily and sit in the corner in silent anger while the rest of my family discusses in a .
- Barnett brings me a plate with a finger bowl and doily on it.
- Though it's saddled with a faded doily of a title, Brideshead Revisited is actually a wildly entertaining, swooningly funny-sad story about an impressionable young man, Charles .