dowlasEtymologyProbably from Doullens, a town of Picardy, in France, formerly celebrated for this manufacture.dowlas means A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounA coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, later replaced by calico.“Mistress Quickly: I bought you / a dozen of shirts to your back. Falstaff: Dowlas, filthy dowlas. I have given them away / to bakers' wives. They have made bolters of them.”