foliate
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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
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
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
Thus the foliate and florate designs are better carved than the animal forms, and both better than the human.
From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall
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