leafdom
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[edit]Noun
[edit]leafdom (uncountable)
- (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!