foliate
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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
Lehman followed a formula in these portraits and foliate still lifes, but his strange deviations and distortions of space and the body keep the images fresh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2016
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
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 Colin Munro
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
If the hornfels formed in a situation without directed pressure, then these minerals would be randomly orientated, not foliated as they would be if formed with directed pressure.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Metamorphic rocks that form under either low-pressure conditions or just confining pressure do not become foliated.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The Parapets are frequently ornamented richly, with rectangular foliated panelling, and covered with a Battlement.
From The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated by Edmund Sharpe
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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