folia

¹ American  

[foh-lee-uh] / ˈfoʊ li ə /

noun

1. plural of folium.

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folia ² American  

[fuh-lee-uh] / fəˈli ə /

noun

1. a wild and noisy Portuguese carnival dance accompanied by tambourines, performed at a frantic pace by men dressed as women and often carrying masked boys on their shoulders.

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folía ³ American  

[faw-lee-ah] / fɔˈli ɑ /

noun

plural

folías

1. an early medieval Iberian dance accompanied by mime and songs, performed during celebrations of the solstice and New Year festivals.

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folia British  

/ ˈfəʊlɪə /

noun

1. the plural of folium

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Etymology

Origin of folia²

see origin at folía

Origin of folía³

1780–85; < Spanish folía or Portuguese folia literally, madness, folly ≪ Old Provençal, equivalent to fol foolish, mad + -ia -y ³; see fool ¹, folly

Example Sentences

Look with insight into a small corner of the musical past, we learn from Savall, and history itself is folia writ large.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2020

In those not uncommon instances, where a mass of clay-slate, in approaching granite, gradually passes into gneiss, we clearly see that folia of distinct minerals can originate through the metamorphosis of a homogeneous fissile rock.

From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles

Stolones repunt non caulis florifer, cui folia ovalia, et minime cordata.

From The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 1 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed by Curtis, William

Then, though its surface looks quite micaceous in the folia of it, when you try them with the knife, you will find you cannot break them away—— Kathleen.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

Virgil describes it very exactly— "Ipsa ingens arbor, faciemque simillima lauro Et si non alium late jactaret odorem Laurus erat; folia hand ullis labentia ventis Flos ad prima tenax."—Georgic ii, 131.

From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson