foliate

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

Made from creamy synthetic scuba knit — which holds shape very well — it has a 20-foot train painted and printed with slightly pixelated gold foliate pattern based on a sketch by Mr. Lagerfeld.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2016

The Gothic feeling prevails in this motive, and the foliate forms are full of spined cusps.

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs

Metamorphic rock textures are foliated, non-foliated, or lineated are described below.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017

Boxwood: English boxwood is bright green and densely foliated with rounded leaves.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2016

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

Even if formed during regional metamorphism, quartzite does not tend to be foliated because quartz crystals don’t align with the directional pressure.

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir