foliate

Example Sentences

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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

Also included are a champagne swizzle stick and a metal-mounted foliate cocktail stick holder.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2023

They are normally described by art historians as foliate heads, and they are, essentially, a decorative trope.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2023

The works reference Art Nouveau’s mimicry of foliate forms — only, in this case, they’re literally composed of leaves.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2021

The bareness of the slab walls was relieved, if not entirely concealed, by the tasteful manipulations of the foliate decorator.

From Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter by Munro, Colin