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leafdom en · NOUN

Etymology

From leaf + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (poetic, uncountable) Leaves generally; leafy places.
    • Thus pleased, laid back, up through the elm we look: / What life the little Creeper of the Tree / To leafdom lends! 1878, Thomas Aird, The Poetical Works of Thomas Aird, page 141:
    • 'Mid the dance of colours, / And semitones of green, / Gleams this daintier Spirit / That in leafdom is the Queen. 1856, Gerald Massey, Craigcrook Castle, page 75: