leafage

Upright, and confused in the leafage, which is sharp-pointed and close set, much hiding the blossom, but of extreme elegance, fit for a sacred foreground; as any gentle student will feel, who copies this outline from the Flora Danica,

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

"Very well; and 'leafage' is good for hide-and-seek; especially when there is no rogue in ambush.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

"Very well; and 'leafage' is good for hide-and-seek; especially when there is no rogue in ambush.

The Egoist George Meredith 1868

The rotten bark gave way under his feet, and with a despairing yelp he pitched down the rounded crescent, smashed through the leafage and stalks of a small bush, and in the heart of the bush, on the ground, fetched up in the midst of seven ptarmigan chicks.

The Wall of the World 2010

Let me understand one of your conclusions, root and all, and all in all, and such is the gracious plan of oneness in the branching and leafage and uptowering, that I must know and name the tree.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

But he waited inside his screen of leafage, his eyes fixed on the screen on the opposite side.

War 2010

It was like finding a purse that had spilled its contents among the leafage, a pink lining studded with turquoise seed.

Summer podding 2010

I looked over at a bit of mobile green leafage that I could see through the long thin window.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

I looked over at a bit of mobile green leafage that I could see through the long thin window.

THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

By Him who made mankind and every branch with leafage dight,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006