The novelist wrote about the doxies who haunted the seaside town, each with a tangled past.

At the summer fair, he proudly introduced her as his doxie, and they danced beneath the lanterns.

The doctor prescribed a week of doxy for my acne.

He called her his doxy, though the term sounded old-fashioned to everyone present.

My neighbor's doxy loves sunbathing on the windowsill.

She refused to change her doxy about the new policy.

The council debated whether the arch doxies should be enshrined in the new charter.

Local folk still whisper about an arch doxy who once ruled the caravans of wandering women.