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leafage|ˈliːfɪdʒ|
Also 6 lefage, 8 levage.
[f. leaf n.1 + -age.]
1. Leaves collectively; foliage.
1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 54 If morn and eu'n fresh lefage they may haue. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 374 When the leafage first comes out in spring. 1876Farrar Marlb. Serm. iv. 30 The test of their reality is not the idle leafage of profession, but the rich certainty of fruit. 1881S. R. Hole Nice iii. 36 The silvery leafage of the olive. 1883Ruskin Art Eng. i. 10 The true representation of actual Sunshine, of growing Leafage.
b. The representation of leaves or foliage, esp. as an ornamentation.
1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 108 The Drapery or Levage that is wrought upon the Heads of Pillars. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) IV. 120 The leafage of his trees..is hard. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. III. i. §2. 2 Corinthian capitals, rich in leafage. 1863Gentl. Mag. Nov. 537 We have also an extreme dislike to..his adopting the modern conceit of leafage in place of the long-established..technical term of foliation. 1893Archæologia LIII. 554 Their freely-carved leafage is far superior to any foliage that could have been executed.
2. Lamination. rare.
1833Holland Manuf. Metal II. 349 The leafage of the wire is produced by passing it through a numerous succession of rayed perforations. |
