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Roof bosses, like sedilia and gargoyles, were often given humorous or grotesque decoration although foliate carving was also common.
In the carpet a foliate guilloche border replaced the geometric, more architectural guilloche border of the drawing.
Apart from foliate designs, Renaissance patterns diffused relatively slowly through northern Europe and Spain.
The lower tier of the fountain had intertwined dolphin supports and was raised on a finely cast foliate stem.
Calculated tangles of foliate and linear patterns hug the edges of several of the paintings, thinning out toward the center.
Terminal buds bear imbricate, scaly buds except in the bitternut hickory which has valvate or foliate buds.
Somasteroids typically are foliate with ventral series of so-called virgals extending from ambulacrals to marginals.
At Osterley what are central fruiting grapevines in the carpet are foliate swags in the drawing.
Fluted and gadrooned surfaces were common decorative finishes, as well as the chasing of floral and foliate motifs and mythological scenes.
The size and shape of the foliate papillae on the posterolateral margins of the tongue are variable.
Each portrait is encircled with a foliate wreath and surrounded by classical rinceaux against a Byzantine style gold background.
The upper portion consists of a wide strip of carved stucco representing vases of foliate scrolls on a smooth background.
Many interpretations of the meaning and origin of the Green Man have been offered since Lady Raglan first applied the term to the human foliate head.
Again, the foliate, grooved teeth do not meet diplodocomorph specs.
The Yongzheng painters were the first to carry foliate decoration over on to the back of the dish, usually as a prolongation of the stem.
Carved and beaded fences deeply engraved with an intricate pattern of foliate scroll.
A white dish with a foliate rim, painted under the glaze with a floral composition.
On the façades, the horizontal bands of muqarnas,arabesquesand palmettes as well as the foliate compositions around the fountains are noteworthy.
The volutes that form stems and leaves gush from a ornament center of foliate out spray acanthes.
Insufficient intake of foliate increases the risk to inborn neurological abnormalities such as Spina Bifida significantly.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The capitals of the naves triforium are said to mark the culmination of Gothic art in foliate design.
The wall was decorated with narrow horizontal bands and a wide foliate zone below the everted rim.
It springs from a corbelled head, from which foliate four cinquefoiled panels.
These floral or foliate designs are one of the most constant features of this class.
It is housed in a tall case of dark-red mahogany veneered on oak, with restrained carving featuring ribands and foliate motifs.
This foliate structure is common to the coral and the plumage of birds, and to how large a part of animate and inanimate nature.
Thus the foliate and florate designs are better carved than the animal forms, and both better than the human.
High pillars with crocketed and foliate capitals supported the springing of the large irregular arches.
The general effect of the design remained the same, but the foliate ornamentation gave place to angular outlines.
The geometric figures were largely supplanted by foliate forms.
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