Dowsabel
DOW-zuh-bel
An old English pet name meaning “sweet and fair.”
Meaning
The excerpted 19th-century sources gloss Dowsabel as “sweet fair,” treating it as an English form with Latin influence. One source also traces it through older spellings, from Ducia to Duloe to Duloibella before becoming Dowsabel in Henry VIII’s time. The name was used for real women in England, not just in literature.
Origin
EnglishLatinfeminine
Fun fact
It was old enough to be a living given name in Tudor England and even appears as the wife of Dromio in Shakespeare.