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Word: Dowsabel
Speech Type: Noun
early 17th century; earliest use found in Ben Jonson (?1573–1637), poet and playwright. From the female forename Dowsabel (also Dowsabell, Dousabella), probably from Anglo-Norman and Old French douce + -abel (in the female forenames Amabel, Isabel, Mirabel), perhaps originally as the name of a character in a lost romance; later apprehended as a compound of French douce + belle
A young country girl; a female sweetheart, typically from the countryside.
- dowsabell
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