Talk:foliature

Other cites, some of which may be Middle English: - -sche (discuss) 02:00, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * 1890, Francesco Colonna, The Strife of Love in a Dream: Being the Elizabethan Version of the First Book of the Hypnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna, page 48:
 * Thores and their Thores and Cymbies wrought with a foliature of oke Cymbies be the outward leaues and acornes winding about their chapters standing parts of a chapter or vpon their subiect Plynths . head of a pillar sticking The ...
 * 2019, Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame, Good Press
 * And vppon the foure corners, were fastned foure coppies, inuersed, and the mouth lying vpward vpon the proiect corner of the Coronice, full of fruites and flowers cut of precious stones, as it were growing out of a foliature of golde.
 * 1845, Thomas Henry White, A Pilgrim's Reliquary, page 303:
 * ... and streaming rain, and a dying foliage fluttering from orchard , grove , and wood ; even the unmellowed Walnut has deserted her faithful sister , the Cherry , which alone stands enveloped with a foliature of blushing barrenness.

RFV discussion: December 2021–January 2022
Rfv-sense: The state of being beaten into foil. Notusbutthem (talk) 16:12, 8 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Although this sense is mentioned in several dictionaries, the only uses of the word that I can find (see entry and Talk:foliature), even uses describing metal foliatures or uses otherwise connected with metalworking, seem to be referring to foliage or leafy ornamentation, not the state of being beaten into foil. - -sche (discuss) 02:05, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 18:43, 8 January 2022 (UTC)