"alfoil" meaning in All languages combined

See alfoil on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Etymology: Shortening. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} alfoil (uncountable)
  1. aluminium foil Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-alfoil-en-noun-DvfDO4Ow Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "2012, Cameron Raynes, The Colour of Kerosene and Other Stories, page 56:",
          "text": "[…] pulling up outside an ugly, besser-block house at the end of a dead-end road. Its windows were lined from the inside with alfoil. The carcass of a mid-eighties Commodore festered in the front yard, its axles resting on bricks, […]",
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