Etymology

dowle

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Today it means: feathery or woolly down; filament of a feather Full definition →

Old French douille
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromdouille“soft”
  2. English todaydowle

Compare Old French douille (“soft”), and English ductile.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.