enfouldered

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adjective

Mixed with lightning or fire.

“c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]”

OriginOld French fouldre ← Latin fulgur →
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Meanings

adjectiveenfouldered (not comparable)
  1. not comparablepoeticMixed with lightning or fire.

    c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]

    2 more examples

    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

    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

Origin

  1. Latinfulgur“lightning”
  2. Old Frenchfouldre“lightning”
  3. Englishenfouldered

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

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