[f. prec. sb.] trans. To cover or coat with tinfoil. Hence Tinfoiled ppl. a., esp. fig.
1598. B. Jonson, Ev. Man in Hum., I. ii. This man! so graced, guilded, or to use a more fit metaphor … so tinfoild by nature.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. iii. III. 399. T’is bracteata fælicitas, as Seneca termes it, tin-foyl’d happines if it be happines at all.
a. 1658. Cleveland, Hecatomb, 9. My Text defeats your Art, ties Nature’s tongue, Scorns all her Tinfoyl’d Metaphors of Pelf.
1887. Sci. Amer., 1 Oct., 215/3. The glass … after being tinfoiled, is … pushed across the table containing the mercury.
