foliot
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Noun
foliot (plural foliots)
- Part of the verge escapement in early clocks.
- A creature from Italian folklore that makes noises and flings objects about.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- Terrestrial devils are those lares, genii, faunes, satyrs, wood-nymphs, foliots, fairies […]