foliate
Example Sentences
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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
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
The spaces at the sides and the bottom are filled with elaborate foliate ornaments and engine-turned work.
From The Stamps of Canada by Poole, Bertram William Henry
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