See twifold on Wiktionary
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"english": "The foam stood high on the poitrel\nHe [the horse] was as speckled as a pie with foam\nA twofold satchel lay on his crupper\nIt seemed he was dressed lightly",
"ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Prologue of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio lxiii, recto:",
"text": "Aboute the paytrel ſtode the fome ful hye\nHe [the hors] was of fome as flecked sa a pye\nA male twyfolde on his croper lay\nIt ſemed that he caryed lytel aray",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"double, twofold (having two parts)"
],
"links": [
[
"double",
"double"
],
[
"twofold",
"twofold"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"wavering, uncertain"
],
"links": [
[
"wavering",
"wavering"
],
[
"uncertain",
"uncertain"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"insincere, dissimulating"
],
"links": [
[
"insincere",
"insincere"
],
[
"dissimulating",
"dissimulating"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"Folded in two."
],
"links": [
[
"two",
"two"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) Folded in two."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈtwiːfɔːld/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈtwifɔːld/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "tuifald"
},
{
"word": "tuifold"
},
{
"word": "twifald"
},
{
"word": "twyfold"
},
{
"word": "twifeald"
},
{
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English"
],
"word": "twifeld"
}
],
"word": "twifold"
}
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