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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 457 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOWLAS , the name given to a See also:

plain See also:cloth, similar to sheeting, but usually coarser. It is made in several qualities, from See also:line warp and weft to two warp and weft, and is used chiefly for aprons, pocketing, soldiers' gaiters, linings and overalls. The finer makes are sometimes made into shirts for workmen, and occasionally used for heavy See also:pillow-cases. The word is spelt in many different ways, but the above is the See also:common way of spelling adopted in factories, and it appears in the same See also:form in See also:Shakespeare's First See also:Part of See also:Henry IV., See also:Act III. See also:scene 3. The See also:modern dowlas is a See also:good, strong and closely See also:woven See also:linen fabric.

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