foyle
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]foyle (third-person singular simple present foyles, present participle foyling, simple past and past participle foyled)
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French fueille, feuille, from Old French fueille, from Late Latin folia, originally the plural of folium.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]foyle (plural foyles)
- (cooking or literary) A leaf (organ of a plant).
- (cooking) A sheet of thin pastry.
- (metallurgy) Foil (thinly beat metal)
- (rare) A thin piece or flake.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “foil, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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