doole
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doole (plural dooles)
- (obsolete) sorrow; dole
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Till on a day, as in his wonted wise
His doole he made, there chaunst a turtle
Dove To come where he his dolors did devise
- (obsolete) A rest; a short nap.
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- “doole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.