1. † a. Coated on one side, or backed with foil (obs.). b. Produced by a coating of foil.
1662. J. Bargrave, Pope Alex. VII. (1867), 131. Two cylinders, with their wooden boxes,—the one of steel, which is most usual in England; the other of foyled isinglass, which I met with often in High Germany, from whence I brought this.
1703. T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 153. Looking-glasses foil’d being in vogue for Ornaments over Chimneys in Parlours, &c.
1864. Realm, 24 Feb., 8. If we are content with painted and foiled glitter.
2. Arch. Ornamented with foils; resembling foils. Foiled arch = foil-arch. See FOIL sb.1 2 b.
1835. R. Willis, Archit. Mid. Ages, 194. This is the Saracen mode of treating foiled arches.
1840. Parker, Gloss. Archit. (ed. 3), 93. Foiled Arch, an arch in the form of a trefoil, cinquefoil, or multifoil.
1848. J. G. Wilkinson, Dalmatia, etc., I. 255. The west front is ornamented with a rosette window, and a foiled corbel table running up the gable, under which is a bust, absurdly supposed to be of ‘Diocletian’s Empress.’
1849. Ruskin, Sev. Lamps, iii. § 20. 86. He had no resource but to cover his walls with holes, cut into foiled shapes like those of the windows.
