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Foil   /fɔɪl/   Listen
Foil

noun
1.
A piece of thin and flexible sheet metal.
2.
Anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities.  Synonym: enhancer.
3.
A device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through.  Synonym: hydrofoil.
4.
Picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector.  Synonym: transparency.
5.
A light slender flexible sword tipped by a button.
verb
(past & past part. foiled; pres. part. foiling)
1.
Enhance by contrast.
2.
Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.  Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart.  "Foil your opponent"
3.
Cover or back with foil.



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"Foil" Quotes from Famous Books



... graceful little copy of verse addressed to Euthalia, in which we may note, by the way, that the fair Rosalinda's charms are ungallantly made use of as a foil to Euthalia's dazzling perfections. As Fielding found these verses not unworthy of a page in his later Miscellanies they ...
— Henry Fielding: A Memoir • G. M. Godden
... by putting on as bold a front, and making as great and startling display, as possible. But as fragrant, modest flowers usually bloom in the garden with gaudy, scentless ones, so those inclined to be bizarre made an excellent foil for the refined and elegant, and thus had their uses. There is little in the world that is not of value, looking at it from ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... malua ula. The malua-ula was a variety of tapa that was stained with hili kukui (the root-bark of the kukui tree). The ripe kukui nut was chewed into a paste and mingled with this stain. Mama ula refers to this chewing. The malua ula is mentioned as a foil to the pa-u, being a ...
— Unwritten Literature of Hawaii - The Sacred Songs of the Hula • Nathaniel Bright Emerson
... brass locks that were screwed onto the inside of the door, with a brass covering for the bolt at the side—not morticed as is now usual. Mrs. Dale locked her son in after he retired to bed. Harry noticed the circumstance and smiled to think how easily he could foil her but as he had promised the doctor to make no attempt on his mother that night, he went to bed and slept soundly. Next day he provided himself with a turn-screw and a small phial of sweet oil. When mamma was busy at cards, he slipped upstairs and easily unscrewed ...
— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous
... simple garment of thin, shimmering stuff, diaphanous as finest silk. It was black, caught at one shoulder with a flashing green stone. The other shoulder was bared, and the black garment was a perfect foil for the whiteness of her perfect skin, her amazing blue eyes, and the ...
— Priestess of the Flame • Sewell Peaslee Wright


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