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the soft folds of the curtain
Her elegant legs were hidden in the folds of her skirt.
He is now firmly back in the conservative fold.
Emily longed to return to the family fold.
We are hoping that these policies will bring reluctant voters back to the fold.
Many Western Marxists left the Communist fold in the 1970s.
This is the British English definition of fold. View American English definition of fold.
the part of the nucleus of an atom that has no electrical charge
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