foliate
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A gold cuff thought to have been decoration on a royal stool is embossed with lavish foliate patterns suggestive of leaves on a kum tree, a type of banyan for which Kumasi is named.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
The design featured a foliate design on an "ornate aubergine coloured" background, the catalogue said.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2023
They are normally described by art historians as foliate heads, and they are, essentially, a decorative trope.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2023
Mr. Mabey finds a few curling floral and foliate motifs but is content to leave these prehistoric symbols as mystery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2016
This foliate structure is common to the coral and the plumage of birds, and to how large a part of animate and inanimate nature.
From Excursions by Henry David Thoreau
Boxwood: English boxwood is bright green and densely foliated with rounded leaves.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2016
This rock is foliated, even though it might not appear to be if examined without a microscope, and so it must have formed under directed-pressure conditions.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
One of the results of directed pressure and sheer stress is that rocks become foliated — meaning that they’ll have a directional fabric.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Foliation is a key feature of metamorphic rocks formed under directed pressure; foliated metamorphic rocks include slate, phyllite, schist, and gneiss.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
An arch or two did duty for architecture, any scrap of foliated ornament for landscape.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
The ash was foliating on the 29th of April, the oak on the 28th.
From The Delectable Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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