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▪ I. foliage, n.|ˈfəʊlɪɪdʒ|
Forms: 6–7 foillage, 7 folliage, fuellage, (9 dial. foilage), 7– foliage.
[An altered form (after L. folium leaf, or its Eng. derivatives) of foillage, a. F. feuillage (earlier fueillage, foillage) f. feuille leaf: see foil n.1 and -age.]
1. The leaves (of a plant or tree) collectively; leafage.
1601Holland Pliny II. 25 There is not an hearbe..that taketh vp greater compasse with fuellage than doth the Beet. 1708Philips Cyder i. 384 Swelling Buds their od'rous Foliage shed. 1784Cowper Task vi. 144 These naked shoots..Shall put their graceful foliage on again. 1858Glenny Gard. Every-day Bk. 175/1 Bulbs are too frequently attacked by vermin when allowed to remain in the ground after the foliage has died down. 1867M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd i. 5 Labouring men's cottages, gleaming white from the surrounding foliage.
transf. and fig.1747Gould Eng. Ants 53 You will..observe on each Side of its Breast a small white Foliage of Wings. 1850Hawthorne Scarlet L. xiii. (1883) 197 The light and graceful foliage of her character.
2. In Art: The representation of leaves, etc. used for decoration or ornament.
1598Florio, Fogliami..foillage, or branched worke. 1664Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. xxxiv. 80 The foliage which domineers in the Freeze. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 150 The simplicity of the carver's foliage at once sets off..the glare of Verrio's paintings. 1874Parker Goth. Archit. i. iv. 119 Foliage is by no means an essential feature of the Early English style. 1879Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 80 Foliage..most beautifully carved.
b. A representation of a cluster of leaves, sprays, or branches. ? Obs.
1699Garth Dispens. 66 A Foliage of dissembl'd Senna leaves Grav'd round its Brim. 1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 371 Foliages, or Branch-work. 1801Coxe Tour Monmouthsh. I. 74 A semicircular arch, ornamented with a foliage of twisted branches.
3. attrib. and Comb., as foliage-border, foliage-stem, foliage-trimming; foliage-bound adj. Also, foliage crop (see quot. 1831); foliage leaf, a leaf in the restricted sense of the word, excluding petals and other modified leaves; foliage plant, one cultivated for its foliage and not for its blossom.
1891Daily News 2 July 6/1 A Louis XVI octagonal gold box, *foliage borders and amber-coloured panels.
1805Scott Last Minstr. vi. xxiii, Shone every pillar *foliage⁓bound.
1831Loudon Encycl. Agric. 1243/2 *Foliage crops, plants cultivated for their leaves to be used green, and which will not make into hay, as the cabbage tribe.
1872Oliver Elem. Bot. i. i. 4, I use the term *foliage-leaves at present simply in order to avoid confusion with the leaves of which flowers are composed. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 634 The cotyledons remain thin like shortly stalked foliage-leaves.
1862Times 10 Apr., *Foliage plants..produce the effect required of them throughout the whole period of their growth.
1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 122 The rhizome and *foliage-stem may be similar or dissimilar.
1818La Belle Assemblée XVII. 36/6 A *foliage trimming of pale blue satin.
▪ II. foliage, v.|ˈfəʊlɪɪdʒ|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To adorn with foliage or with a representation of leaves and flowers.
1836in Smart. 1846P. Parley's Ann. VII. 64 The tombs..are inlaid with wreaths of flowers, and foliaged in their natural colours. |