Assertion: hamlet | /r/CapableOf | take up the word foil
Facets:
value: from lat
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: I'll be ... indeed, I'll act as your foil, my ignorance setting off your skill, as the darkness of night sets off the brilliancy of a star; Hamlet takes up the word foil and uses it in the sense of the tinsel placed under gems in rings, etc., to add to their brilliancy; in this sense from Lat.