(Especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata.
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1 It is notable that a number of these foliate masks have the tongue protruding.
2 The spaces at the sides and the bottom are filled with elaborate foliate ornaments and engine-turned work.
3 The designs on bamboo surfaces are largely foliate scrolls, especially the yam-leaf, but also occasionally animal derivatives.
4 Just north of the bridge's end is a foliate pattern-ivyleaves, I believe-andsouth is a hexagonal pattern.
5 His guise is that of the "Green Man", or " foliate mask", as it is sometimes called.
6 Resting on a platform base and brass bun feet, the table has a brass string inlay and brass foliate decoration to the apron.
7 A popular treatment of the stall was the foliate mask; stems issuing from the mouth of the mask and developing into leaves and vines.
8 This foliate structure is common to the coral and the plumage of birds, and to how large a part of animate and inanimate nature.
9 Its lower edge is foliated , and the spandrils are enriched with quatrefoils.
10 At the triforium base foliated brackets support vaulting shafts of three clustered columns.
11 Two or three of the columns have richly foliated capitals, like the Corinthian.
12 Arabesques and masks and foliated patterns adorn the flat slabs.
13 A foliated or schistose structure, though often developed in these rocks, is not universal.
14 The division between each stall shows either a well-executed foliated ornament, or an angel.
15 Of the rocks observed, by far the greater number are foliated basic eruptives,-schistsand gneisses.
16 These minerals occasionally assume a laminar or foliated arrangement.
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