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Foliate   /fˈoʊliˌeɪt/   Listen
Foliate

verb
(past & past part. foliated; pres. part. foliating)
1.
Hammer into thin flat foils.
2.
Decorate with leaves.
3.
Coat or back with metal foil.
4.
Number the pages of a book or manuscript.  Synonyms: page, paginate.
5.
Grow leaves.
adjective
1.
Ornamented with foliage or foils.  Synonym: foliated.  "A foliated capital"
2.
(often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves.
3.
(especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata.  Synonyms: foliaceous, foliated.





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"Foliate" Quotes from Famous Books



... aid me in my frenzied fight; Strips of iron-wood, scaly blue-gum, writhing redly in my hold; With my lunge of lurid lances, with my whips that flail the night, They will burgeon into beauty, they will foliate in gold. Let me star the dim sierras, stab with light the inland seas; Roaming wind and roaring darkness! seek no mercy at my hands; I will mock the marly heavens, lamp the purple prairies, I will flaunt my deathless banners down the far, ...
— Rhymes of a Rolling Stone • Robert W. Service
... live-oak, aid me in my frenzied fight; Strips of iron-wood, scaly blue-gum, writhing redly in my hold; With my lunge of lurid lances, with my whips that flail the night, They will burgeon into beauty, they will foliate in gold. Let me star the dim sierras, stab with light the inland seas; Roaming wind and roaring darkness! seek no mercy at my hands; I will mock the marly heavens, lamp the purple prairies, I will flaunt my deathless banners down the far, unhouseled lands. In the vast and vaulted pine-gloom where ...
— Rhymes of a Rolling Stone • Robert W. Service
... the Ibans surpass all the other tribes. These designs are displayed most abundantly in the decoration of bamboo surfaces and in the dyeing of cloths. The designs on bamboo surfaces are largely foliate scrolls, especially the yam-leaf, but ...
— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall


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