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
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
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
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 Miles, Alexander
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