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
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
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
The spaces at the sides and the bottom are filled with elaborate foliate ornaments and engine-turned work.
From The Stamps of Canada by Bertram William Henry Poole
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
In the case of the foliated rocks motion within the mass seems to have been the predominating factor, and dynamical metamorphism is considered as important as heat metamorphism.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
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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