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foil1
Hunting any scent that obscures the trail left by a hunted animal
foil2
1. metal in the form of very thin sheets
2. the thin metallic sheet forming the backing of a mirror
3. Architect a small arc between cusps, esp as used in Gothic window tracery
4. short for aerofoil, hydrofoil
FOIL - File Oriented Interpretive Language. CAI language.

["FOIL - A File Oriented Interpretive Language", J.C. Hesselbart, Proc ACM 23rd National Conf (1968)].
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She missed the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles because of injury, and in 1988, she was a member of the team that finished sixth in Seoul, highest ever for women foilists.
YEARS HAVE NOT FOILED FENCER'S OLYMPIC DREAM : SWORDSWOMAN IS GRANDE ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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