Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A league; an alliance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Union by league; alliance.
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- noun obsolete
Union byleague ;alliance .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He didn't quite faint, but the color drained out of the world until the running - to-riot fo-liage on the west side of the park looked almost as gray as the autumn sky overhead.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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"Who knows?" said Lamsar, and they walked on through the rocky mountain pass and entered a forest that was cool, even though the sun had reached its ze - nith and was glaring down through parts of the thick fo - liage.
The Bane of the Black Sword Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977
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"Who knows?" said Lamsar, and they walked on through the rocky mountain pass and entered a forest that was cool, even though the sun had reached its ze - nith and was glaring down through parts of the thick fo - liage.
The Bane of The Black Sword Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977
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These mills are still used for crushing rye, the mash being mixed with roots for cattle, and the straw used here, as elsewhere, for _liage_ or tying up wheatsheaves.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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The fum - mer~houfes are made entirely of laths, over which the vines climb with their ten - drils, and cover them entirely with their fo - liage, fo as to flielter them entirely from the heat of the fun.
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But the brilliant young fo - liage, the deep, calm, red waters of the canallike river,
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■ till the liage toath takes liack his pa - rents to London.
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'No — there are exceptions — andevery B&i) iias his angel of an exreptioo, as every iman has her star; — it is well for weak imen when these stars of theirs don't Mad them astray; and well for weak men, fffhen these angel exceptions, before niar - liage, don't turn out very ■ women or devils iftenvards.
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