Folly (disambiguation)
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A folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration. It is also a synonym of foolishness, the lack of wisdom.
A folly fort is a military fort built on water near the shore.
Folly may also refer to:
Places
- Folly, Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Folly Brook, a brook in the London Borough of Barnet
- Folly Brook, a tributary of the River Frome, Bristol
- Folly Brook, a tributary of the River Clun, Shropshire
- Folly Island, a barrier island near Charleston, South Carolina
- Folly Island, New Zealand, in the Campbell Island group
Other
- Folly (allegory), a common allegorical figure in medieval morality plays and in allegorical artwork through the Renaissance
- Folly (band), a band from Sussex, New Jersey
- Folly (Staunton, Virginia), a historic plantation house
- USS Folly (SP-1453), a sailing schooner that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel during World War I
- Yoann Folly (born 1985), French-born Togolese footballer
- Folly, a color one-fourth of the way between crimson and rose, closer to crimson than to rose
- Folly, an 1886 statue by Edward Onslow Ford
- Folly, a 1994 novel by Susan Minot
See also
- Seward's Folly, another name for the purchase of Alaska
- Folie (disambiguation)
- Follies (disambiguation)
- Foley (disambiguation)
- FoLLI
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