foliage
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
foliage
- The leaves of plants.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- (short for) Fall foliage.
- An architectural ornament representing foliage.
- French: feuillage
- German: Blätter, Laub, Laubwerk , Blätterwerk, Beblätterung
- Italian: fogliame
- Portuguese: folhagem
- Russian: листва́
- Spanish: follaje
- French: feuillage
- Portuguese: folhame
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