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foliots

foliots is the plural of foliot.

Meaning of foliot

Noun

foliot (plural foliots)

  1. Part of the verge escapement in early clocks.
  2. A creature from Italian folklore that makes noises and flings objects about.
    • Terrestrial devils are those lares, genii, faunes, satyrs, wood-nymphs, foliots, fairies[…]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

Questions about foliots

What is foliots the plural of?
Foliots is the plural of foliot.

Words near foliots in the dictionary

  1. folios
  2. foliose
  3. foliosely
  4. foliosity
  5. foliot
  6. foliots
  7. folious
  8. foliphagous
  9. folisol
  10. folisolic
  11. folisols

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