leafdom

noun

leafdom

noun

Etymology From leaf + -dom.

1

Poetic Leaves generally; leafy places.

  • '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:
  • 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:

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