leafdom

English

Etymology

leaf +‎ -dom

Noun

leafdom (uncountable)

  1. (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!
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