feuillage
English
Noun
feuillage (countable and uncountable, plural feuillages)
- archaic form of foliage
French
Etymology
From Middle French feuillage; equivalent to feuille + -age. Compare dialectal English foilage and Walloon fouyaedje.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fœ.jaʒ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: feuillages
- Rhymes: -aʒ
Noun
feuillage m (plural feuillages)
- foliage
Further reading
- “feuillage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fœ.ʎa.ʒə/
Noun
feuillage m (plural feuillages)
- foliage
- 1609, Antoine Du Brueil, Le Sandrin, page 51
- un chesne bien muny de gland et de feuillage
- an oak well furnished with acorns and with foliage
- un chesne bien muny de gland et de feuillage
- 1609, Antoine Du Brueil, Le Sandrin, page 51
Descendants
- French: feuillage
- → Middle English: ffoylage
- English: foilage, foliage