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
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
It is housed in a tall case of dark-red mahogany veneered on oak, with restrained carving featuring ribands and foliate motifs.
From The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 by Silvio A. Bedini
Metamorphic rock textures are foliated, non-foliated, or lineated are described below.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
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
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 cornice, overburdened with ovulos, foliated arabesques, and volutes, had been badly dismantled by the infiltration of rain-water.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Th?ophile Gautier
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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