Enfolding

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    the action of enfolding something wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of enfold form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"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."

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