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• plural of folium.

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  folia

  noun

  plural of folium.
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  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

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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

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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

The abrupt hillocks thus composed, as well as the highly inclined folia of the common varieties of gneiss, strike N.N.E. or a little more easterly, and S.S.W.

From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin

These are all of our presidents known to have used them, except General Garfield, who had a printed book-plate of simple design, with the motto "inter folia fructus."

From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Ainsworth Rand Spofford

Great veins of quartz are numerous in the mica-schists; wherever these occur the folia are much convoluted.

From Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin

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 John Ruskin

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