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Architecture. A bunch of foliage terminating a pinnacle, etc.; a finial.
A carved or moulded ornament representing a hanging garland.
Architecture. Ornamentation with foils; tracery consisting chiefly of small arcs or foils.
the term applied to the foliage of conventional form, with stiff leaf-stems, characteristic as a decoration in the Early English style.