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siipi A very thin sheet of metal.
puhekieltä Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
puhekieltä In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character.
puhekieltä Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
Sir Philip Sidney

As she a black silk cap on him began / To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve.

Hector has a foil to set him off.

Blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit, but hurt not.

Socrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a sword.

And by mortal man at length am foiled.

her long locks that foil the painter's power

to foil the scent in hunting

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King Richard (..) caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled under foot.

Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, / In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.

Nor e'er was fate so near a foil.

(..)but after giving her a dodge, here's another b— follows me upon the foil.