alfoil

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

alfoil (uncountable)

1. aluminium foil
   • 1997, Rhondda Cleary, Fragrant Candles, page 10:

     Then place the mould upside down on a tray covered with alfoil. The wax will slide down the mould and collect on the foil.

   • 2012, Cameron Raynes, The Colour of Kerosene and Other Stories, page 56:

     […] pulling up outside an ugly, besser-block house at the end of a dead-end road. Its windows were lined from the inside with alfoil. The carcass of a mid-eighties Commodore festered in the front yard, its axles resting on bricks, […]

Anagrams

• Fiallo, folial