foliate
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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
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
Thus at Wells the foliate design is relieved by the ungainly figure of a melancholy individual, who, before retiring to rest, pursues an examination into his pedal callosities, or extracts the poignant thorn.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall