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A doily is a small mat, often a circle, made of cloth with a lace pattern of holes, or of paper cut to look like lace. You slide it under a vase, a lamp, a cake, or a cup so the table stays clean — and so the table looks “dressed.” Paper doilies still sit under cakes in bakeries; cloth ones feel a bit grandmotherly and old-fashioned, more at home in a living room than in a new café. The word itself is a little ; many people just say a lace mat or the paper under the cake.
蕾絲墊、蕾絲紙墊
組成From Doiley, the name of a 17th-century London cloth seller. The surname is Anglo-Norman, from d’Œuilly, a place name in Calvados, from Old French oeil (“eye”).
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
doilynoun/ˈdɔɪli/
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A small ornamental piece of lace or linen or paper used to protect a surface from scratches by hard objects such as vases or bowls; or to decorate a plate of food.
- She looked polite, and observed the oiled floors, hard-wood staircase, unused fireplace with tiles which resembled brown linoleum, cut-glass vases standing upon doilies, and the barred, shut, forbidding unit bookcases that were half filled with swashbuckler novels and unread-looking sets of Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Elbert Hubbard.
- Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doileys / With afternoon tea-cakes and scones.
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A similar circular piece of lace worn as a head-covering by some married Jewish women.
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obsoleteAn old kind of woollen material.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。