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foilage

/ˈfɔɪlɪd͡ʒ/

foilage is the obsolete or nonstandard form of foliage.

Meaning of foliage

Noun

foliage (countable and uncountable, plural foliages)

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

Forms of foilage

pluralfoilages

Questions about foilage

What is foilage the obsolete or nonstandard form of?
Foilage is the obsolete or nonstandard form of foliage.
How do you pronounce foilage?
Foilage is pronounced /ˈfɔɪlɪd͡ʒ/.

Words near foilage in the dictionary

  1. foil razor
  2. foil shaver
  3. foil stone
  4. foil stones
  5. foilable
  6. foilage
  7. foilages
  8. foilboard
  9. foilboarded
  10. foilboarding
  11. foilboards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foilage (page history and authors); foliage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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