leafage

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Smugly, I carry them home, sauté the leafage with garlic and chili and lemon zest, feeling rampantly Italian . . . until I remember the dozens of white bitter roots rolling around in the bottom of my fridge.

From The New Yorker

What can be worse than festoons of leafage, like so many sausages, painted upon a ceiling, with griffins, small framed pictures, impossible flowers, and feeble ornament, all with fictitious light and shade?

From Project Gutenberg

You imagine the rich lights and shadows, the jewel-bright leafage, the faces and moving limbs of men and women, seen for an instant and gone again.

From Project Gutenberg

That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.

From Project Gutenberg

The shower that had fallen had greatly refreshed the land, and though more rain was eagerly hoped for, the almond-trees were heavy in leafage and thickly ruched with the green-velvet casings of the embryonic fruit.

From Project Gutenberg