interfolding

Worried that a guest might bring me an unexpected present that I would want to reciprocate, I bought a number of amaryllis bulbs packaged in cardboard boxes with complicated interfolding tops and parked them in the back of my bedroom closet, just in case.

Living Alone and Loving It Barbara Feldon 2003

Interlockers master a complex system of interfolding their clothes into a kind of accordion.

“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003

Interlockers master a complex system of interfolding their clothes into a kind of accordion.

“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003

The moors had become interfolding arcs of white and blue, the trees wore their epaulettes with an obsequious air of conformity, and the area under treatment by tractors was simplified as if a white dustsheet had been dropped over it.

Tied Up in Tinsel Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1972

Each shouldering a sack of corn, they marched through the rows of squalid huts that surrounded the great lodge, and out betwixt the interfolding extremities of the palisade that encircled the town.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

Mahommed was in the garb used indoors immemorially by his race -- sharply pointed slippers, immense trousers gathered at the ankles, a yellow quilted gown dropping below the knees, and a turban of balloon shape, its interfolding stayed by an aigrette of gold and diamonds.

The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866

Up above, covering every centimetre of the vault, an interfolding illumination, a many-layered fiction.

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