Meanings
adjective
- Having a fold or folds; having undergone folding.
Joel swallows his bite of seaburger and opens the folded notebook paper.
1992, Elizabeth Massie, Sineater, page 1593 more examples
I got a compartment to myself, and sat with folded arms, looking grayly at the sunlit devastation that flowed past the windows
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 292Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor.
1932, Maurice Baring, chapter 20, in Friday's BusinessA cloud of sea birds hovered overhead, the gannets diving with folded wings
1934 November, Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall, chapter I, in Pitcairn’s Island, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 11
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of fold
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