foliate

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The 10c differs from the 6d in having the corner numerals (represented by the Roman "X") placed obliquely on a cross hatched ground instead of upright on a ground of foliate ornamentation, while TEN CENTS replaces SIX PENCE under the portrait.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to leaves.
  2. adjective Shaped like a leaf.
  3. adjective Geology Foliated.

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  • FURNITURE: R. J Horner labeled birdseye maple foliate carved mirror back tall chest; mint Haywood Wakefield 8 pc.
  • The 10c differs from the 6d in having the corner numerals (represented by the Roman "X") placed obliquely on a cross hatched ground instead of upright on a ground of foliate ornamentation, while TEN CENTS replaces SIX PENCE under the portrait. —  The Stamps of Canada
  • The spandrels are filled with conventional foliate ornaments. —  The Stamps of Canada
  • The spaces at the sides and the bottom are filled with elaborate foliate ornaments and engine-turned work. —  The Stamps of Canada
  • The leaves are five-foliate, sometimes trifoliate; leaflets broadly lanceolate, accuminate and finely serrate; thorns minute, recurrent and few, only on the smaller branches In a field beyond, a small donkey was drawing a stone roller three feet long and one foot in diameter, firming the crests of narrow, sharp, recently formed ridges, two at a time. —  Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan
 

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  1. Latin foliātus, bearing foliage, from folium, leaf; see folium.

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  1. from Middle Latin foliatus, past participle of foliare (later Italian fogliare = Portuguese folhear = Spanish hojear = Provencal folhar, foillar, fuelhar, fulhar = French feuiller), put forth leaves, from Latin folium, a leaf: see foil.
  2. = Portuguese folheado = Italian fogliato, from Latin foliatus, adjective, leafy, leafed, from folium, a leaf: see foliate, v.
 

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/ˈfoʊlɪeɪt/
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