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Leaf

Nature

The green plate of a plant. Seasonal shedding is a botanical fact before it is a metaphor.

  • Leaf is associated with Green.

    Green is the ordinary color-name of a living leaf. Festival greens and Osiris’s face are other jobs of the color.

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  • Leaf is historically related to Medicine.

    In Merrifield's Original Treatises on the Arts of Painting, Leaf is treated with Medicine; piece and peer stock share the entry.

    from Mary Philadelphia Merrifield · Original Treatises on the Arts of Painting, 1849

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  • Leaf is historically related to Oil.

    In Presbyter's On Divers Arts, Leaf is placed beside Oil as concrete shop companions.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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  • Leaf is historically related to Oak.

    In Brewster's A Treatise on Optics, Leaf is placed beside Oak as concrete shop companions.

    from David Brewster · A Treatise on Optics, 1831 (and later PD editions)

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  • Season is associated with Leaf.

    Leaves come and go with the year in many climates. The fact is botanical before it is a rite.

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  • Tree contains Leaf.

    A tree makes leaves. Seasonal shedding is a botanical fact Yggdrasil does not cancel.

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  • Bay is historically related to Leaf.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, sago soup is seasoned with a bay-leaf if liked, and stock likewise takes a bay-leaf among the herbs — bay is used as that leaf in the pot.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Tin is historically related to Leaf.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, if gold is lacking one takes a leaf of tin made by thinning pure tin upon the anvil with a mallet, then cleaning and beating it again — tin is beaten into that leaf.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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  • Egg is historically related to Leaf.

    In Theophilus’s Divers Arts, gold is laid by painting the place with clear white of egg beaten without water, then lifting a cut leaf onto it with the pencil handle and spreading it even with a brush.

    from Theophilus Presbyter · On Divers Arts, c. early 12th century

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