dowds

"You riflemen are all the same, so bloody proud of your regiment that you would even prefer to look veritable dowds rather than transfer to another."

Beyond the Sunrise Balogh, Mary 1992

She didn't want to be stuck down among frumps and dowds, she said.

The Making of a Soul Kathlyn Rhodes

Of course, the people who are natural born dowds still manage to make their gas masks look dowdy, but those who are normally well-turned-out somehow contrive to make them into a positive decoration.

Mrs. Miniver 1939

But I didn't know that there were men-dowds, too. '

Under the Deodars Rudyard Kipling 1900

I've gotten so used to dowds, that the sight of a Paris gown scares me all into fits.

Flaming June George de Horne Vaizey 1887

Regular dowds you look, if you don’t mind my saying so.

A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

Regular dowds you look, if you don’t mind my saying so.

A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

“I beg your pardon, ma’am, but I would not send you into society looking like dowds.”

A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

We’re chaperones for Liv, but we don’t have to look like matronly dowds.

A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007

“I beg your pardon, ma’am, but I would not send you into society looking like dowds.”

A Wicked Gentleman Jane Feather 2007