doily

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Kaur's exhibition includes family photos, an Axminster carpet, a vintage car covered in a giant doily and kinetic handbells.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2024

Some fell vertically like the traditional jabot, and others encircled her neck like a lace doily.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2020

But there’s nothing old-fashioned about a few heartfelt lines written out on a piece of paper — doily optional.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2020

When the novel begins, in nineteen-sixties England, she is a young homemaker with the personality of a lace doily: decorous, brittle, self-consciously antiquated.

From The New Yorker • May 11, 2019

I packed my clothes and put the doily I had made for Mami into a corner of my small bag.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago