Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of enfold
nounenfolding (plural enfoldings)
plural enfoldings
- A folding around something.
This deficiency is less to be regretted, because the people at large are not now fitted to enjoy its display of fashionable manners, or to follow the delicate enfoldings of its graceful knot, which is made of frail, though glittering, materials.
1820, Atheneum, Or, Spirit of the English Magazines, volume 7, page 239
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