a. Also 7 -leaf(e)d. Having or consisting of two leaves. a. Having two hinged or folding parts, as a door, table, etc. Also fig.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, II. i. (1660), 50. The two leaved silver gates.
1611. Middleton & Dekker, Roaring Girl, II. ii. The two-leav’d tongues of slander or of truth.
1611. Cotgr., Valve, a foulding, or two-leafed doore, or window.
1626. trans. Featly’s Parallel., A ij. A two leafed Tablet.
a. 1644. Quarles, Sol. Recant., ch. xii. Then shall the Castles two-leafd gates be barr’d.
1847. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, xii. The great dining-room, whose two-leaved door stood open.
b. Having two foliage-leaves, or two petals or sepals; having leaves growing in pairs.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. 115/2. Bifoile, or two leafed flower.
1793. Martyn, Lang. Bot., Two-leaved calyx.
1894. J. Muir, Mount. California, viii. 201. The Two-leaved Pine [Pinus contorta], more than any other, is subject to destruction by fire.
c. Of a book: Consisting of two leaves.
1726. Ayliffe, Parergon, 191. Her Register … was a two-leav’d Book of Record.
