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Guests will be treated to table settings featuring vintage china and silver as well as delicate doilies.
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Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2025
Society insisted that women were the dependents of men, and working women were conveniently imagined as wives and daughters earning pocket money to purchase lace doilies for their dressing tables.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Coffee filters are not just doilies to line the basket.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2025
In my case, there were also lots of crocheted lace doilies.
—Brené Brown, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
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Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2025
Society insisted that women were the dependents of men, and working women were conveniently imagined as wives and daughters earning pocket money to purchase lace doilies for their dressing tables.
—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Coffee filters are not just doilies to line the basket.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2025
In my case, there were also lots of crocheted lace doilies.
—Brené Brown, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Doily.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doily. Accessed 5 Dec. 2025.
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doily
noun
doi·ly
ˈdȯi-lē 
plural doilies
1
: a small napkin
2
: a small often decorative cloth or paper used to protect the surface of furniture
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