[ad. late L. foliātūra, f. foliātus FOLIATE.]
1. a. A cluster of leaves; foliage. b. Leaf-ornamentation.
1676. Grew, The Anatomy of Plants, IV. v. § 2 (1682), 171. Those Plants which have no Flower or Foliature, are yet some way or other Attir’d.
1753. Shuckford, Creation, xi. 203. I apprehend, that both here, and in some other Places of Scripture, it should be rendred not Leaves, but a Foliature, or Intertwining of Leaves, and that the whole Paragraph should thus be translated; They wreathed together a Foliature of the Fig-tree, and made themselves Enwrapments.
1815. Southey, Roderick, XVIII. 127.
| Another’s hand | |
| Held the long spear, more suited in these times | |
| For Urban, than the crosier richly wrought | |
| With silver foliature. |
2. ‘The state of being hammered into leaves’ (J.).
