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
The practical importance of the condition is that, as the foliate papilla is prominent and red, it is liable to be mistaken on superficial examination for a commencing epithelioma.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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