Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cover or bind with forel; hence, to adorn.
- noun A case of leather or similar material in which manuscripts were formerly preserved.
- noun A kind of parchment for the covers of books.
- noun The border of a handkerchief.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of parchment for book covers. See
forrill . - transitive verb rare To bind with a forel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of
parchment for book covers; aforrill . - verb To bind with a forel.
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Examples
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The main course was a trout cooked in a fluffy pastry shell, called forel v tyestye.
Dance Of Desire Lisa, Leonore 1982
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Upon a table lay an open psalter, with its long hanging cover and a ball at the extremity of the forel.
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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Fransman lost Mooie forel op het Oostvoornse Meer op 2 april 2010.
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Fransman lost Mooie forel op het Oostvoornse Meer op 2 april 2010.
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