† fouldre Obs.
Also 4–5 foudre.
[a. OF. fouldre (Fr. foudre):—vulg. Lat. *fulgĕr-em (L. fulgur neut.).]
Lightning; a thunderbolt.
| c 1384 Chaucer H. Fame ii. 27 That thing that men calle foudre That smoot somtyme a tour to powdre. c 1450 Mirour Saluacioun 3413 His face like foudre shynyng. 1483 Caxton G. de la Tour F iij, Sodome and Gomorre..were..brente..by fyre of sulphur and of fouldre. |