foliage vs leafage what difference
what is difference between foliage and leafage
English
Alternative forms
- (archaic, dialectal, nonstandard) foilage
- (archaic) feuillage
Etymology
From earlier foilage, from Late Middle English ffoylage, from Middle French feuillage. The more recent form is influenced by the Latin etymon folium.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfəʊliɪdʒ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfoʊliɪdʒ/
Noun
foliage (countable and uncountable, plural foliages)
- The leaves of plants.
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- (short for) Fall foliage.
- An architectural ornament representing foliage.
Translations
Anagrams
- foilage
English
Etymology
leaf + -age
Noun
leafage (countable and uncountable, plural leafages)
- The leaves of plants collectively; foliage.
- Color change in New England is the tourist time, when people come to see the leafage turn brilliant colors.
- 1932, Rudyard Kipling, They
- She came towards me, half feeling her way between the tree boles, and though a child, it seemed, clung to her skirt, it swerved into the leafage like a rabbit as she drew nearer.
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