leafage

[ lee-fij ]

noun

1. foliage.

leafage

/ ˈliːfɪdʒ /

noun

1. a less common word for foliage

Word History and Origins

Origin of leafage¹

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

What can be worse than festoons of leafage, like so many sausages, painted upon a ceiling, with griffins, small framed pictures, impossible flowers, and feeble ornament, all with fictitious light and shade?

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