1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, 74. Bolnyd with foldyn Argumentis.
1512. Nottingham Rec., III. 114. Unam tabulam vocatam ‘a folden borde’ cum tribus foliis.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, X. i. 11. The faldin ȝettis baith vp warpit brayd.
1572. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1835), I. 348. One lyttle fauden table.
1611. Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit., IV. i. § 18. 138/2. The women wore their haire plated in curious manner, hanging down their backs and shoulders, from vnder foulden wreathes of fine linnen, rolled about their heads, rather loading the wearer then delighting the beholder; for as the one was most seemely, so the other was vnsightly.
1702. W. J., Bruyn’s Voy. Levant, liv. 211. A wooden Chest of Drawers, which opens with Folden Doors.
1857. Blackw. Mag., LXXXI. March, 337.
| He sang, and drew, with accents tender, | |
| Angels down, on folden wings, | |
| Made one of the hearts most wide asunder. |
