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  • noun Plural form of foliage.

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Examples

  • It is true that the foliages are a little more luxuriant in this Wenzel-book than in the earliest examples of the style seen in England, but the twenty years which had elapsed would easily account for this difference.

    Illuminated Manuscripts John William Bradley 1873

  • Kim said this on November 2, 2008 at 10:28 am | Reply this is great! i really am drawn to these dark foliages too.

    Black And Blood « Fairegarden 2008

  • The General Instruction course covers the use of all standard commercial flowers and foliages, new and unusual flowers and foliages, exotics, dried botanicals, and basic techniques of designing.

    You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999

  • The General Instruction course covers the use of all standard commercial flowers and foliages, new and unusual flowers and foliages, exotics, dried botanicals, and basic techniques of designing.

    You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999

  • The development work with tropical tree foliages as protein sources has been in the field of ruminant production systems.

    1. Tree products in agroecosystems: economic and policy issues. 1992

  • Elsewhere meadows alternated with forests of banice, white oak, shrack, interstellar yew; through the clear air the foliages - dark green, crimson, sooty ocher, pale green - glowed like colors painted on black velvet.

    Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975

  • It generally has a bold, projecting moulding above and below, and is carved [v. 03 p. 0309] sometimes with foliages, but in general with cusped circles or quatrefoils, in which frequently are shields of arms.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • The first had great foliages of coarse mane and tail; the other, a splendid beast that would kill himself for you, did not run to hair.

    Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905

  • The ridges of pine foliages broke against the sky miles and miles in splendid sweep.

    Wayside Courtships Hamlin Garland 1900

  • The ridges of pine foliages broke against the sky, miles and miles, in splendid sweep.

    Other Main-Travelled Roads Hamlin Garland 1900

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