foliate

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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

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 popular treatment of the stall was the foliate mask; stems issuing from the mouth of the mask and developing into leaves and vines.

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs