Foils
[fɔɪl]
Examples
- There were a couple of shelves, with a few plates and cups and saucers; and a pair of stage shoes and a couple of foils hung beneath them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Deity unquestioned, thine essence foils decay! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He provided foils for us, and Steerforth gave me lessons in fencing--gloves, and I began, of the same master, to improve in boxing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Edited by Lenore