foliate
foh lee ayt
- v hammer into thin flat foils
foliate metal - v decorate with leaves
- v coat or back with metal foil
foliate glass - v number the pages of a book or manuscript
- v grow leaves
the tree foliated in Spring - a ornamented with foliage or foils
foliate tracery
a foliated capital - s (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
`foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate' - s (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
- He goes only as far as Cincinnati, but there he is at last free to foliate as he pleasesand peeping through the foliage is a ripe young secretary.
- Michel believed his father's closeups of water lilies in their fragrant, foliate delicacy to be only the result of cataract-blurred vision.