leafage

American  

[lee-fij] / ˈli fɪdʒ /

noun

1. foliage.

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leafage British  

/ ˈliːfɪdʒ /

noun

1. a less common word for foliage

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Etymology

Origin of leafage

First recorded in 1590–1600; leaf + -age

Example Sentences

Part of the message, written on two, scrunched-up translucent sheets of paper, read: “Bismark Omit leafage buck bank / Paul Ramify loamy event false new event.”

From New York Times

It wouldn't fix the world's troubles if places started using a little less leafage on sandwiches, but every little bit helps.

From Salon

Smugly, I carry them home, sauté the leafage with garlic and chili and lemon zest, feeling rampantly Italian . . . until I remember the dozens of white bitter roots rolling around in the bottom of my fridge.

From The New Yorker

We have, indeed, only a hideous human face with a marginal excrescence of leafage.

From Project Gutenberg

You imagine the rich lights and shadows, the jewel-bright leafage, the faces and moving limbs of men and women, seen for an instant and gone again.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• vegetation