Sc. Also 5–9 fulye, 6 fulȝe, 9 fulzie, foolyie. [var. of FOIL sb.1]

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  † 1.  A leaf. Obs.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, XII. Prol. 89. Euery faill Ourfret with fulȝeis of figuris full diuers.

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1819.  W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 113. Sae thick they [Bees] owr the fulȝies stalk.

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  2.  Gold-leaf.

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c. 1450.  Golagros & Gaw., 939. The fulye of the fyne gold fell in the feild.

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1488.  in Ld. Treas. Accts. Scotl. (1877), I. 85. Item, a buke with levis of gold, with xiij levis of gold fulȝe.

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1808–80.  Jamieson, Fulye 2. Leaf gold … We still use fulye in the same sense, without the addition of the term gold.

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