"Half of them will be in gray and half of them in brown, and a few old Dowdies will perhaps be in black.
"The Rebel of the School"
Mrs. L. T. Meade
I know but two duchesses in this wide world who are not Dowdies, and one of them is an American.
"Parrot & Co."
Harold MacGrath
The suffragets are not all Dowdies; but they are mainly supported by Dowdies.
"Press Cuttings"
George Bernard Shaw