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• folia
  folia

  noun

  plural of folium.
• folía
  folía

  noun

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

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

folías plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• folías
  plural

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

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folia

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

There were two complex hexameters, but all that remained in his memory of the rest were two or three disjointed phrases: Lapsa cadunt folia ... ubi frigidus annus ... et    ... terris apricis.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

Darwin further showed that in highly schistose rocks, the folia bend around and encircle any foreign bodies in the mass, and that in some cases they exhibit the most tortuous forms and complicated puckerings.

From Geological Observations on South America by Darwin, Charles

When the bands of folia are very fine and tortuous the structure is called helizitic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

It is easily separable in folia, and cannot be confounded with any of the other minerals.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 by Various