† foileryn.
Obsolete.
Ornamentation resembling foliage.
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maple leaf1394
vinea1400
vinet1412
traila1423
garlandc1524
foilery1527
wreath?1586
leaf work1592
foliage1598
sprig1613
branching1652
leafage1658
leafing1688
acanthus leaf1703
feuillage1714
sprigging1775
foliature1814
pampre1842
palmette1850
vine-scroll1886
olive acanthus1888
foliage-border1891
branched work-
1527 Prior Moore in J. Noake Monastery & Cathedral Worcester (1866) 157 The gest chamber..hanged with peynted clothes of folery, with bests, fulks, etc.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) iii. l. 1435 in Shorter Poems (1967) 92 Skarsement, repryse, corbell and battelyngis, Fulȝery, borduris of mony pretius stone.
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