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Webster 1913 Edition


Foliomort

Foˊli-o-mort′

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Adj.

Webster 1828 Edition


Foliomort

FO'LIOMORT

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Adj.
[L. folium mortuum.] Of a dark yellow color, or that of a faded leaf; filemot.

Definition 2024


foliomort

foliomort

English

Adjective

foliomort (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete form of feuillemort.
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    • 1757, Edward Lisle, Observations in husbandry
      [] 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 []