foliomort

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A form of feuillemorte — Of the color of dead or dying leaves: dull yellowish or orangish brown.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectivefoliomort (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteObsolete spelling of feuillemorte.

    The exterior Cortex is of a Foliomort Colour. The next under that a whitiſh brown. Then a Foliomort again.

    1729, J[ohn] Woodward, “Pebles, Flints, Agats, and Stones Related to Them”, in An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England; […], tome I, London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn] Senex, […]; and J. Osborn and T[homas] Longman, […], →OCLC, part I (Of the Fossils that are Real and Natural: […]), page 48
    1 more example

    […] if either broad-clover, or hop clover grass be sown on white-land, or be out of proof by the poverty of the ground, and you let them run but to a full-grown leaf, it will be of a foliomort colour, and speckled with black specks, which is a blight occasioned by the weakness of the ground […]

    1757, Edward Lisle, Observations in Husbandry
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