From HomoExcelsior

1. The state of being in leaf. 2. Decoration with sculpted or painted foliage. 3. Decoration of an opening with cusps and foils, as in Gothic tracery. 4. The act, process, or product of forming metal into thin leaf or foil. 5. The act or process of coating glass with metal foil. 6. The process of numbering consecutively the leaves of a book or manuscript. 7. The leaves so numbered. 8. The layered structure common to metamorphic rocks.

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