foliage

• foilage (archaic, dialectal, nonstandard)
• feuillage (archaic)

From earlier foilage, from Late Middle English ffoylage, from Middle French feuillage. The more recent form is influenced by Latin folium (“leaf”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊliɪdʒ/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊliɪd͡ʒ/

foliage (countable and uncountable, plural foliages)

1. The leaves of plants.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:

     Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. (short for) Fall foliage.
3. An architectural ornament representing foliage.

• foilage