Both Uses of
foliage
in
The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers)
- Then he fell like an ash that on the crest of a far-seen hill is smitten with the axe of bronze, and brings its delicate foliage to the ground; even so he fell, and round him rang his armour bedight with bronze.†
Book 13 *foliage = plant leaves
- But when they came to the spurs of many-fountained Ida, straightway they set them lustily to hew high-foliaged oaks with the long-edged bronze, and with loud noise fell the trees.†
Book 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(foliage) plant leaves
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, foliage can reference architectural ornament consisting of leaves and the stems to which they are attached.