Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowdies
Literary usage of Dowdies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Social Life in the Early Republic by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1903)
"... are better qualified than any man in the United States. In Mrs. Livingston,
to whom present my warmest respects, you have a most able coadjutor. dowdies ..."
2. The Mirror of the Century by Walter Frewen Lord (1906)
"Clods and ruffians and bores and dowdies, among whom their lives were passed,
... The authoress accepts her clods and dowdies as interesting people, ..."
3. Terrible Tractoration, and Other Poems by Thomas Green Fessenden (1837)
"t We transform dowdies into goddesses. We here quote a passage from a popular
writer merely to indicate our utter disapprobation of the author and of his ..."
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