enfouldered

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

enfouldered (not comparable)

  1. (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 []
    • 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.