[Doulas, near Brest, in Brittany, the eponymous name of a coarse kind of linen, much used in the 16C and 17C, and later a strong calico made in imitation of this; the sl. is more immediately linked to the character Daniel Dowlas, in George Colman’s play The Heir at Law (1797)]
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