Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Leafage; foliage.
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Examples
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On the bottom lands the grasses began to start, the willows renewed their leafery.
The Sagebrusher A Story of the West Emerson Hough 1890
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The principal weakness of Romm's discussion, in fact, is that every criticism (except his political tea-leafery) he levels at the CIC applies, though usually with more force, to the CAT.
The RBC 2009
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The principal weakness of Romm's discussion, in fact, is that every criticism (except his political tea-leafery) he levels at the CIC applies, though usually with more force, to the CAT.
The RBC 2009
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Liddell lokker through the leafery, ours is mistery of pain. 3 You may spin on youthlit’s bike and multiplease your Mike and Nike with your kickshoes on the algebrars but, volve the virgil page and view, the O of woman is long when burly those two muters sequent her so from Nebob4 see you never stray who’ll nimm you nice and nehm the day.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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"Look on Nasrín [FN#232] those branchy shoots surround; * With greenest leafery 'tis deckt and crowned:
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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