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Home Dictionary Name: dowlasblack hole
A dungeon or dark cell in a prison a military lock up or guardroom now commonly with allusion to the cell the Black Hole in a fort at Calcutta called the Black Hole of Calcutta into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20 1765 and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air...
Dowlas
A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland now nearly replaced by calico...
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