follis
Americannoun
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folles
plural
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a bag of copper or bronze coins with a fixed weight, used as money of account in the later Roman Empire.
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a silver-plated copper coin of ancient Rome, first issued by Diocletian.
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a copper coin of the Eastern Roman Empire, a.d. c500.
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Etymology
Origin of follis
1880–85; < Late Latin; compare Latin follis bag, purse
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The real Roman football was played with the inflated follis, which was kicked from side to side over boundaries, and thus must have closely resembled the modern Association game.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Les années folles contained as much tragedy as fun.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2013
Creative director Deborah Lloyd matched the walls at the brand's show in a black dress adorned with French script reading "Toutes les filles sont folles," or "All the girls are crazy."
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2012
Last year I was here at the festival with Alain Resnais, in another small comic role in ‘Les herbes folles.’
From New York Times ● May 19, 2010
The most ancient specimens of it which have come down to us are those collected under the title "Vierges sages et Vierges folles," preserved in MS.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson
How he would lie! and what lungs he had to lie with! immensa cavi spirant mendacia folles!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
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