Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as feuillet, 2.
  • Of the color of a dead or faded leaf; of a shade of brown. Also foliomort.
  • noun A color like that of a dead or faded leaf; filemot.

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  • adjective Of the color of dead or dying leaves.

Etymologies

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From French feuille-morte.

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Examples

  • So to make a countryman understand what feuillemorte colour signifies, it may suffice to tell him, it is the colour of withered leaves falling in autumn.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • So to make a countryman understand what feuillemorte colour signifies, it may suffice to tell him, it is the colour of withered leaves falling in autumn.

    God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005

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  • adj., having the color of a dead or faded leaf (i.e., brown or yellowish-brown); French for 'dead leaf'

    (Also filemot, philemort, phillimot)

    July 7, 2008

  • (noun) - (1) A shade of brown of the color of a faded leaf. Anglicised as feulemort, fillamort, filemot, phillemot, and philomot. French, literally "dead leaf." --C.A.M. Fennell's The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases, 1964 (2) To make a countryman understand what feuillemorte colour signifies it might suffice to tell him, 'tis the colour of withered leaves falling in Autumn. --John Locke's Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, 1690

    April 22, 2018