foliate
Example Sentences
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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
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
A door is on the right back; and foliate Gothic windows, in the rear, reveal the magic water with its gliding gondolas.
From The Immortal Lure by Rice, Cale Young
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