English Dictionary

doily

/ˈdɔɪli/

noun

A small ornamental piece of lace or linen or paper used to protect a surface from scratches by hard objects such as vases or bowls; or to decorate a plate of food.

She placed a delicate doily on the coffee table.

意味（1）

A small ornamental piece of lace or linen or paper used to protect a surface from scratches by hard objects such as vases or bowls; or to decorate a plate of food.

She looked polite, and observed the oiled floors, hard-wood staircase, unused fireplace with tiles which resembled brown linoleum, cut-glass vases standing upon doilies, and the barred, shut, forbidding unit bookcases that were half filled with swashbuckler novels and unread-looking sets of Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Elbert Hubbard.

意味（2）

(Judaism) A similar circular piece of lace worn as a head-covering by some Jewish women.

意味（3）

(obsolete) An old kind of woollen material.