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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

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

On the lateral border of the tongue, just in front of the anterior palatine arch, are several vertical folds of mucous membrane—the folia linguæ, or foliate papillæ.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

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

One of the results of directed pressure and sheer stress is that rocks become foliated — meaning that they’ll have a directional fabric.

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

The Parapets are frequently ornamented richly, with rectangular foliated panelling, and covered with a Battlement.

From The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated by Edmund Sharpe

The ash was foliating on the 29th of April, the oak on the 28th.

From The Delectable Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch