dowset
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Noun edit
dowset (plural dowsets)
- Obsolete form of doucet.
- 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:
- [they]amused themselves with broiling the umbles, or dowsets, of the deer, upon the glowing embers
References edit
- “dowset”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Adjective edit
dowset
- Alternative form of doucet
Noun edit
dowset
- Alternative form of doucet