enfouldered
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From en- + + Old French fouldre (“lightning”), from Latin fulgur (“lightning”), fulgere (“to flash”), + -ed.
Adjective
[edit]enfouldered (not comparable)
- (poetic) Mixed with lightning or fire.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- With foul enfouldred smoke and flashing fire
- c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach
- Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform,
Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]
- Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform,
- 2001, Walter Tonetto, Exiled in Language:
- That there should be no proper conductor guiding it towards a source of light that might really aid us to see, makes the whole piece appear shaded by error, ombres chinoises; but shadow though there be, it does nothing to remove the enfouldered crack from the wall, and the charred signature such power always leaves behind.