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Dowle vs Downe - What's the difference?

dowle | downe |

As a noun dowle

is feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather.

As a proper noun Downe is

common variation of the spelling of the county Down in Ireland; also Downshire.

As an adverb downe is

obsolete spelling of down.

As a preposition downe is

obsolete spelling of down.

dowle

English

Alternative forms

* dowl, doul

Noun

  • feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather
  • * 1610 , , act 3 scene 3
    • You fools! I and my fellows
    Are ministers of fate: the elements
    Of whom your swords are temper'd may as well
    Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
    Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
    One dowle that's in my plume; [...]
  • * , Notes on Godwin Foster and Hazlitt, at page 304 in the collected works' volume of 1864.
    • No feather, or dowle of a feather, but was heavy enough for him.

    downe

    English

    Proper noun

    (head)
  • Common variation of the spelling of the county Down in Ireland; also Downshire

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