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Doubloon
Doubloon (Spanish doblón, "double escudo"): Spanish gold coin of the 16th-19th centuries, strictly the 2-escudo piece (~6.77 g, 22 karat) but in British colonial usage the 8-escudo onza; famous from pirate lore, the Brasher doubloon, and Moby-Dick.
Dough
Dough: a kneadable flour-and-water paste used for bread, pasta, pastry, and biscuits. Distinguished by gluten development, leavening (yeast, steam, none), and fat content; kneading parameters govern bread quality.
Doughnut
Doughnut (donut): a deep-fried ring, ball, or filled sweet dough, leavened with yeast or baking powder. Dutch oliekoecken roots in America; first recorded 1809 by Washington Irving; global market about USD 11.62 billion in 2025.
Doughnut shop
Doughnut shop, also donut shop: a retail eatery selling doughnuts and coffee. Key facts include Adolph Levitt's 1920 doughnut machine, Krispy Kreme (1937) and Dunkin' (1948) chains, and Cambodian American shop ownership.
Doujin (同人)
Doujin (同人) is Japanese self-published, largely non-commercial creative work; doujinshi are its self-published books. Covers Meiji literary origins, manga fan culture, Comiket (founded 1975), derivative-creation copyright practice, doujin games, and digital platforms.
Doutzen Kroes
Doutzen Kroes (born 1985, Eastermar, Friesland) is a Dutch supermodel and former Victoria's Secret Angel (2008–2014), also known as a L'Oréal Paris ambassador and elephant-conservation activist.
Dr Pepper
Dr Pepper is an American carbonated soft drink created in 1885 in Waco, Texas, by pharmacist Charles Alderton with a 23-flavor blend. Owned by Keurig Dr Pepper, not PepsiCo or Coca-Cola; the oldest major US soft drink, famously ruled not a cola in 1963.
Dr Pepper Snapple Group
Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS), Plano, Texas-based non-alcoholic beverage company formed in 2008 from the Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages spinoff; owned Dr Pepper, Snapple, 7UP, Canada Dry, A&W; merged with Keurig Green Mountain in 2018 to form Keurig Dr Pepper.
Dr. Martens
Dr. Martens (Doc Martens, DMs; AirWair International Ltd) is a British footwear brand founded on Klaus Maertens' 1945 air-cushioned sole, launched as the 1460 boot on 1 April 1960 by R. Griggs Group, London-listed since 2021.
Dr. Oetker
Dr. Oetker is a German family-owned food company founded by pharmacist Dr. August Oetker in Bielefeld in 1891. Known for Backin baking powder (1893) and Germany's first frozen pizza (1970), it operates in over 40 countries with €4.3 billion food revenue.
Dragée
Dragée: French sugar-coated confection (Jordan almond, comfit, mlabas ملبس), a nut, seed, chocolate, or liqueur center built up by panning with layers of hardened sugar; also decorative sugar balls and sugar-coated pills.
Dragon Boat Festival (端午节)
Dragon Boat Festival (端午节, Duanwu Festival), a major Chinese festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, marked by dragon boat racing, zongzi, and mugwort customs; origins tied to Qu Yuan and Wu-Yue dragon totem rites; UNESCO-inscribed in 2009.
Dragon dance (舞龙)
Dragon dance (舞龙, wǔ lóng), also called longwu or dragon lantern dance, is a Chinese folk performance in which teams manipulate a long cloth-and-bamboo dragon led by a dragon pearl; it originated in ancient rain-praying rituals and is widely listed as intangible cultural heritage.
Dragon robe
The dragon robe (龙袍) is the dragon-embroidered ceremonial robe of Chinese emperors, classified in the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) as festive dress worn one rank below formal court robes.
Dram shop
Dram shop laws, also called commercial host liability, are U.S. state laws holding alcohol sellers liable for harm by visibly intoxicated or underage patrons; adopted in over 40 states and DC, absent in Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, and Virginia.
Drambuie
Drambuie is a Scottish liqueur made from aged blended Scotch whisky, heather honey, and herbs, bottled at 40% ABV and known for the Rusty Nail cocktail.
Draught beer
Draught (draft) beer: beer of any style served from a cask or keg rather than bottle or can. Covers unpressurized cask ale and pressurized keg dispense, 38°F/12-15 PSI balance, line cleaning, and its 53.1% US on-premise volume share.
Drawn thread work
Drawn thread work is a form of whitework embroidery in which selected warp or weft threads are withdrawn and the remaining threads decorated to create a lace-like effect.
Dreadlocks
Dreadlocks, also called locs or dreads, are hair left to mat into ropelike locks, associated with Rastafari and many other cultures; the term dates to 1955–60 and carries religious, cultural, and legal significance.
Dree Hemingway
Dree Hemingway (Dree Louise Hemingway Crisman, born 1987, Sun Valley, Idaho) is an American model and actress, great-granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, daughter of Mariel Hemingway, star of Starlet (2012), and face of Chloé and JW Anderson campaigns.
Dress
Dress: a one-piece garment with bodice and skirt, and more broadly clothing and appearance for an occasion. Covers word history, social meaning, silhouettes from the beadnet dress to the terno, and museum collections.
Dress shirt
Dress shirt: a man's shirt for wear with tie and jacket, sized by collar, with stiffened collar, buttoned cuffs, and full placket; formerly underwear, now business and formal wear; formal variant has bib front and French cuffs.
Drink
Drink (beverage): liquid for human consumption, from water and milk to beer, wine, tea, coffee, and soft drinks. Distinguished by the recent, post-agricultural appearance of all drinks except water and breast milk, and weak caloric compensation for sugary and alcoholic beverages.
Drink can
Drink can (beverage can): two-piece steel or aluminum container for soft drinks and beer. First canned beer 1935 (Krueger); aluminum from 1958; Alcoa pull tab 1962; Reynolds stay-on tab 1975; over 70% recycled.
Drinking game
Drinking game: rule-governed social game, also called DG, requiring players to drink on cues, promoting rapid intoxication; ancient forms include Greek kottabos and Tang dynasty gong penalties; strongly linked to binge drinking among college students.
Drinking in public
Drinking in public means consuming alcohol in streets, parks, transport, and public events. WHO tracks public-place restrictions as an alcohol policy indicator within SAFER availability controls; rules vary by country and locality, with recent liberalizations in Greece and Massachusetts pilot districts.
Drinking straw
Drinking straw: thin tube for sipping beverages, known since Sumerian times (3000 BC); modern paper straw patented by Marvin Stone 1888, bendy straw by Joseph Friedman 1937; polypropylene plastic dominated until environmental bans and alternatives.
Drive-through
Drive-through (drive-thru): a business serving customers in their cars via speaker and window, pioneered by Red's Giant Hamburg (1947) and In-N-Out's two-way intercom (1948); now the dominant QSR channel, averaging 5:24 per visit in 2026, with voice AI and COVID-era medical uses.
Dry county
Dry county: a US county banning alcohol sales. Also moist and wet counties under local option. About 37 fully dry counties remain as of 2026, clustered in the Bible Belt, rooted in the 21st Amendment's delegation of alcohol regulation to states.
Dubonnet
Dubonnet (quinquina Dubonnet): French sweet aromatised quinquina aperitif created in 1846 by Parisian chemist Joseph Dubonnet to mask quinine's bitterness for Foreign Legion soldiers; later famous as Queen Elizabeth II's 2:1 gin and Dubonnet pre-lunch drink.