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  • noun Plural form of oakleaf.

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Examples

  • The Distinguished Lying Cross with oakleaves, swords, and diamonds in gold shall be awarded to the most distinguished (indicted, caught in the wrong hotel room, etc) politician or other lifeform upon the conclussion of the current sorry campaign.

    Winner Announced, and Charlton Heston Appreciated 2008

  • Maybe Ms. Ensler is not crazy about carved oakleaves and fish-scale checkering in stocks, on which Austrians dote.

    The Truth about Sarah Palin Revealed! 2008

  • Your gorgeous ‘Golden Globes’ daylily is making me jealous, and so is your found wrought iron with the acorns and oakleaves bless that Gardoctor.

    About The Light- June « Fairegarden 2009

  • Of this Mr A (tillalaric) and these wasch woman (dapple-hued), fhronehflord and feeofeeds, who had insue keen and able and a spindlesong aside, nothing more is told until now, his awebrume hour, her sere Sahara of sad oakleaves.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • It is carved in an Elvish vinery motif with acorns and oakleaves and has a splendid knot as can be seen below in the detail shots.

    Archive 2005-03-01 Jeff 2005

  • It is carved in an Elvish vinery motif with acorns and oakleaves and has a splendid knot as can be seen below in the detail shots.

    How to make a magic wand 101. Jeff 2005

  • It seems now that I may rise from stars to crowns, from crowns to oakleaves, and end my days as a commissionaire in -- who knows?

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 Various

  • Then Young Gerard took a handful of twigs and branches, and began to build upon the ash a castle of many sorts of wood, and the child helped him, laying hazel on his beech and fir upon his oak; and often before their turret was quite reared a spark would catch at the dry fringes on the fir, or the brown oakleaves, and one twig or another would vanish from the castle.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

  • Then Young Gerard took a handful of twigs and branches, and began to build upon the ash a castle of many sorts of wood, and the child helped him, laying hazel on his beech and fir upon his oak; and often before their turret was quite reared a spark would catch at the dry fringes of the fir, or the brown oakleaves, and one twig or another would vanish from the castle.

    Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923

  • With skillful strokes he formed long, waving hair on the head and covered the body with a gown of oakleaves, while the two feet sticking out at the bottom of the gown were clad in sandals.

    The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Lyman Frank 1902

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