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

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

From BBC

The design featured a foliate design on an "ornate aubergine coloured" background, the catalogue said.

From BBC

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

From New York Times

Its distinguishing feature is the round-arched windows on the third and sixth floors, with a “handsome unifying foliate band course.”

From The New Yorker