foliage

English

Alternative forms

• (archaic, dialectal, nonstandard) foilage

Etymology

From earlier foilage, from Late Middle English ffoylage, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French feuillage. The more recent form is influenced by the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin etymon folium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊliɪdʒ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊliɪdʒ/

Noun

foliage (countable and uncountable, plural foliages)

1. The leaves of plants.
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     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.

2. (short for) Fall foliage.
3. An architectural ornament representing foliage.

Translations

the leaves of plants

• Armenian: սաղարթ (hy) (saġartʻ)
• Bulgarian: шума (bg) f (šuma), листак (bg) m (listak)
• Catalan: fullatge m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 葉子／叶子 (zh) (yèzi), 叶子 (zh) (yèzi)

• Czech: listí (cs) n
• Danish: løv c
• Dutch: gebladerte (nl)
• Esperanto: foliaro
• Faroese: leyv n
• Finnish: lehdet (fi) pl, lehvistö
• French: feuillage (fr) m
• Friulian: frind m
• German: Blätter (de) n pl, Laub (de) n, Laubwerk (de) n, Blätterwerk (de) n, Beblätterung f
• Greek: φύλλωμα (el) n (fýlloma), φυλλωσιά (el) f (fyllosiá)
• Hebrew: עלוה (he) f
• Hindi: पर्णसमूह (parṇasmūh)
• Hungarian: lomb (hu)
• Irish: duilliúr m, clúmh m
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• Italian: fogliame (it) m
• Japanese: 木の葉 (このは, ko no ha)
• Latin: frons f
• Macedonian: лисја m or n (lisja), лисје m pl (lisje)
• Malay: dedaun
• Maori: raurau
• Norwegian: bladverk n, løvverk n
• Polish: listowie (pl) n, liście (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: folhagem (pt) f
• Romanian: frunze (ro) f pl, frunziș (ro) n, frunzărime (ro) f
• Russian: листва́ (ru) f (listvá), ли́стья (ru) m pl (lístʹja)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: list m

• Spanish: follaje (es) m
• Swedish: lövverk n, bladverk n
• Tagalog: kadahunan
• Venetian: stram (vec) m
• Volapük: bledem (vo)
• Welsh: deiliant m

fall foliage — see autumn foliage

an architectural ornament

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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• French: feuillage (fr) m
• Portuguese: folhame m

Anagrams

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