foliage

• (archaic, dialectal, nonstandard) foilage

From earlier foilage, from Late Middle English ffoylage, from Middle French feuillage. The more recent form is influenced by the Latin etymon folium.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊliɪdʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊliɪdʒ/

foliage (countable and uncountable, plural foliages)

1. The leaves of plants.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. (short for) Fall foliage.
3. An architectural ornament representing foliage.

• foilage