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Synonyms for foliate

hammer into thin flat foils

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decorate with leaves

coat or back with metal foil

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number the pages of a book or manuscript

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grow leaves

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ornamented with foliage or foils

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(often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves

(especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata

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'It has two doors with sunburst motifs in relief framed by molded panels with two mock-drawers underneath decorated with incised floral and foliate decoration again framed by molded panels, the whole surmounted by a crest of intersecting palm leaves terminating in C-scrolls carved in relief,' said Gonzalez.
Yam contains the highest amount of potassium nutrient including foliate among other foods, which helps to lower hypertension and modify the blood vessel for proper blood flows.
This raises the possibility that the original foliate beadwork, which includes the very smallest beads from the earliest era, has been recycled into this current example.
Again like celery, lentils are full of fibre and foliate so as well as giving you the full feeling, they are great for digestion and healthy cell growth.
The leafy green is made up of 92 per cent water, and is also rich in lutein, potassium, fibre, and brain-boosting foliate. Moreover, one cup of spinach leaves contains 15 per cent of your daily requirements for vitamin E.
Loneliness turned slowly into sorrow, transforming over seasons to lee-pricked ire that made her weep on buses, or in the middle of the day, When she might look up, catch sight of autumn's first brown leaf sifting Through sunlight, a foliate clock marking her solitary time.
The manuscript in question is visibly a de luxe copy, adorned with a series of miniatures in colour and gold, foliate borders and initials in gold with penwork decoration, as well as occasional cadels (i.e., decorative extensions to the ascenders of the letters) and rubrics.
Traipsing through the specialist world of full bar borders, partial bar borders, foliate initials, champs, roundels, colours, squiggles, cilia, historiations, and myriad other aspects of the illuminated book culture of the later Middle Ages, Kennedy argues that the Wycliffite Bible provides an example of almost every aspect of medieval religious book culture.
In our last sale, we had the pleasure of selling a pair of Edwardian Royal Worcester covered pedestal vases, below, each with poly-chrome enamelled panels of sheep in a landscape by Harry Davies, with lake scenes to reverse, gilt fish scale ground, twin dragon mask handles, foliate moulded, concave neck, finialled domed cover (one knop detached but present) both signed, sold for PS5,400!
An ancient symbol of power and victory, the eagle dominates a draco (a dragon with the foliate tail of a snake) and represents the conquest of evil.
Hallmarked 'Liberty & Co Ltd, Birmingham 1902', the front of the piece was embossed with a foliate motif and coupled with stylised numerals on the clock face, its appearance makes it an unmistakably fashionable 'Liberty' piece.
It begins with the use of Johannine images in early Christian art and moves through foliate crosses, common decoration for Bibles and Qurans to biblical authority in the Sistine Chapel, the title page of the Coverdale Bible to Victorian stained glass and Van Gogh.
24-25) tube-like, developed, surrounding aedeagus medially, with an acinaciform process at apex on left side, with a foliate plate in right side.