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  • noun A leaf of any vine, especially of a grapevine.

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Examples

  • There's quite an earthy scent coming from this cheese with an undertone of piquancy from the vine-leaf.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Haalo 2007

  • The centre is quite creamy but mild and as you move out the flavours develop - the vine-leaf adds a sharp, acidic quality which cuts across the creamy core.

    Woodside Cheese Wrights Haalo 2007

  • With his round head, his face the color of a vine-leaf, his blue eyes, a trumpet nose, a thick-lipped mouth, and a double-chin, the dear old fellow excited, whenever he appeared among strangers who did not know him, that satirical laugh which Frenchmen so generously bestow on the ludicrous creations Dame Nature occasionally allows herself, which Art delights in exaggerating under the name of caricatures.

    A Marriage Contract 2007

  • The countless wrinkles upon his brown face looked as if they would be hard to the touch; the straight nose, the prominent cheek-bones, streaked with red veins like a vine-leaf in autumn, the angular features, all were characteristics of strength, even where strength existed no longer.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • There's quite an earthy scent coming from this cheese with an undertone of piquancy from the vine-leaf.

    Woodside Cheese Wrights Haalo 2007

  • The centre is quite creamy but mild and as you move out the flavours develop - the vine-leaf adds a sharp, acidic quality which cuts across the creamy core.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Haalo 2007

  • Quia, though some water come out from thence, there never goes in any; for it is well antidoted with pot-proof armour and syrup of the vine-leaf.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Quia, though some water come out from thence, there never goes in any; for it is well antidoted with pot-proof armour and syrup of the vine-leaf.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Now the corner had been broken off and the stylized vine-leaf carvings were worn to shadows of themselves.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • There was a vine-leaf pattern around the hem, worn now but good needlework.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

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