Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowdinesses
Literary usage of Dowdinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"... however, are more toad than flax- weeds irrepressible, or annuals, or dowdinesses.
Let the wise rock garden avoid such ; let it even in prudence avoid ..."