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enfouldered en · ADJ

Etymology

From en- + Old French fouldre (“lightning”), from Latin fulgur (“lightning”), fulgere (“to flash”), + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, poetic) Mixed with lightning or fire.
    • 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. 2001, Walter Tonetto, Exiled in Language:
    • c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]
    • With foul enfouldred smoke and flashing fire 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: