1894 Brewer’s / D / Dole
lamentation, from the Latin doleo, to grieve.
“He [the dwarf] found the dead bodies, wherefore he made great dole.”—S. Lanier: King Arthur, book i. chap. xiv.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.