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 front door was massive, and sheeted over with lead embossed in foliate and heraldic patterns.

From News from the Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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

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

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

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 Sharpe, Edmund

The ash was foliating on the 29th of April, the oak on the 28th.

From The Delectable Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir