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
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 Colin Munro
These crystalline changes create identifying textures, which is shown in the figure below comparing the phaneritic texture of igneous granite with the foliated texture of metamorphic gneiss.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Boxwood: English boxwood is bright green and densely foliated with rounded leaves.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2016
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
The rock that forms in this way is known as greenstone if it isn’t foliated, or greenschist if it is.
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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