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Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza, as illustrated by Gustave Doré: the characters' contrasting qualities [1] are reflected here even in their physical appearances. In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.
A tin foil hat is a hat made from one or more sheets of tin foil or aluminium foil, or a piece of conventional headgear lined with foil, often worn in the belief or hope that it shields the brain from threats such as electromagnetic fields, mind control, and mind reading.
Foil: A character, especially in a double act, who is in most respects the opposite of the protagonist or straight man. The contrast between a character and their foil allows each characters' traits to be highlighted. Lou Costello; Lucy Ricardo; Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter) Folk hero
Foil (architecture), decorative device derived from cusps of circles; Foil stamping, a printmaking technique; Foil (fencing), one of the three weapons used in modern fencing; Foil (fiction), a subsidiary character who emphasizes the traits of a main character Comedic or comic foil, the straight man in a comedy double act
The foil is like a wing that extends into the water under the surfboard, it causes the board to lift out of the water as it gains speed. 'Surf's up' takes on new meaning for California ...
The "chasing" occurs as the user gingerly keeps the liquid moving in order to keep it from overheating and burning up too quickly, on a heat conducting material such as aluminium foil. Another use of the term "chasing the dragon" refers to the elusive pursuit of a high equal to the user's first in the use of a drug, which after acclimation is ...
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This is the aluminum foil we like, in part because Reynolds Wrap has started color-coding aluminum foil, and this is what the colors mean. View this post on Instagram.