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foliate

[foh-lee-it, -eyt, foh-lee-eyt] / ˈfoʊ li ɪt, -ˌeɪt, ˈfoʊ liˌeɪt /




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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

Thus the foliate and florate designs are better carved than the animal forms, and both better than the human.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall

These crystalline changes create identifying textures, which is shown in the figure below comparing the phaneritic texture of igneous granite with the foliated texture of metamorphic gneiss.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2017

Boxwood: English boxwood is bright green and densely foliated with rounded leaves.

From Washington Post Dec. 9, 2016

Foliation is a key feature of metamorphic rocks formed under directed pressure; foliated metamorphic rocks include slate, phyllite, schist, and gneiss.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

The rock that forms in this way is known as greenstone if it isn’t foliated, or greenschist if it is.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2015

Very often a mass of normal gabbro with typical igneous character passes at its margins or along localized zones into foliated rocks of this kind, and every transition can be found between the different types.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

The ash was foliating on the 29th of April, the oak on the 28th.

From The Delectable Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir




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