doily
DOY-lee · noun
Origin
The word comes from Doiley, the name of a 17th-century London draper. That surname is Anglo-Norman, derived from d'Œuilly, the name of several places in Calvados, France, which in turn traces to Old French oeil, meaning "eye."
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Related words
The Old French root oeil ("eye") links this word's deep history to that of "eye" itself, through the place name it came from.