foliage
1
6.8
- noun
- /ˈfoʊliɪdʒ/
:
motivo vegetal
- The architect designed a beautiful gateway adorned with carved foliage that mimicked the shape of leaves.
- stylized foliage
- foliage in autumn
- peak foliage
Examples
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Finally, I bought a gorgeous fresh fall foliage wreath at the Portland Farmers Market for the front door.
Blog text (5) -
Mistletoe is hung, and rings of ornamented foliage are placed on doors.
Academic text (1991) -
The host's tormentors have stolen away to a remote location, staged as a Danubian landscape flush with foliage.
Academic text (2005) -
PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): 4 Ara Pacis Augustae, exterior: floral panel with foliage, tendrils, and swan.
Academic text (1990) -
Banded by ormolu, the exotic woods of the marquetry top depicted a central cartouche with a detailed musical trophy over a conforming frieze of stylized foliage.
Fiction book (1992) -
For the festive event, the table was decorated with elegant centerpieces featuring floral arrangements and lush foliage.
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During the ceremony, guests admired the intricate foliage embellishments on the walls of the historic building.
Synonyms
A decorative leaf shape used in stone carvings and windows
Compounds
How Decorative
2
8.6
1
6.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
foliage = foli + age
The decorative architectural sense is derived from the same non-productive combining form 'foli-' + '-age', which is not transparent to learners who do not know the combining form.
Etymology
Foliage also came to mean a decoration that looks like leaves because builders and artists copied real leaf shapes in stone and wood, so foliage can mean leaf-like ornament on a building.