feuillage

English

Noun

feuillage (countable and uncountable, plural feuillages)

1. archaic form of foliage

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French feuillage. By surface analysis, feuille +‎ -age. Compare dialectal English foilage and Walloon fouyaedje.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fœ.jaʒ/

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• Homophone: feuillages
• Rhymes: -aʒ

Noun

feuillage m (plural feuillages)

1. foliage

Further reading

• “feuillage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fœ.ʎa.ʒə/

Noun

feuillage m (plural feuillages)

1. foliage
   • 1609, Antoine Du Brueil, Le Sandrin, page 51:

     un chesne bien muny de gland et de feuillage

     an oak well furnished with acorns and with foliage

Descendants

• French: feuillage
• → Middle English: ffoylage
  • English: foilage, foliage