foyle
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Verb edit
foyle (third-person singular simple present foyles, present participle foyling, simple past and past participle foyled)
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French fueille, feuille, from Old French fueille, from Late Latin folia, originally the plural of folium.
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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.
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References edit
- “foil, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.