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What is a folly?

What is a folly? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Foolishness.
  2. Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
  3. A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
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But union leaders said the service was being hit by an act of vandalism and branded the plans folly and an absolute disgrace.
The mother realises her folly and wants the in-laws to stay with them forever!
And by their clinging to the anchor of a sinking ship for security, they drown in their own folly.
To kill a swan is still considered the height of folly and many used to believe that swans were in fact the reincarnation of human souls!
Time was when the big man, a steamfitter by trade, would have thought it mad folly to come to Ed Massey's for anything but a haircut.
My ash bower is a kind of folly, an Aboriginal wiltja that stands at the top of my long meadow in Suffolk.

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