leafdom

leafdom

English

Etymology

leaf +‎ -dom

Noun

leafdom (uncountable)

1. (poetic) Leaves generally; leafy places.
   • 1856, Gerald Massey, Craigcrook Castle (page 75)

     'Mid the dance of colours, / And semitones of green, / Gleams this daintier Spirit / That in leafdom is the Queen.

   • 1878, Thomas Aird, The Poetical Works of Thomas Aird (page 141)

     Thus pleased, laid back, up through the elm we look: / What life the little Creeper of the Tree / To leafdom lends!