leafy
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English
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[edit]leafy(comparativeleafier,superlativeleafiest)
- covered with leaves
- leafytrees
- containing muchfoliage
- aleafyavenue
- in the form of leaves (of some material)
- resembling aleaf
- (of a place)wealthy,middle-orupper-class
- They live in a beautiful house in aleafysuburb.
- 2008January 23, Robert Syms, “Housing and Regeneration Bill: Exclusions from Subsidy Arrangements”, inparliamentary debates(House of Commons)[1],column392:
- Those are not necessarily theleafiestareas. From the tenants of Durham, £1,671,546 was used to subsidise people elsewhere. I am not familiar with Durham, it may be a veryleafyplace in the north-east, but I suspect that there is a need for those funds.
- 2014July 21, Kyle Caldwell, “Income tax league table: the towns that pay the most and least tax in Britain”, inDaily Telegraph[2]:
- Income tax payments cost the average British taxpayer £4,985 a year, but those who reside in theleafiestareas of the country pay three times this amount.
- 2014October 10, Fraser Nelson, “Clacton by-election: The Tories cannot fight forleafyareas and forget the poor”, inThe Guardian[3]:
- The Tories plan to give their all against the other Ukip defector, Mark Reckless, in the more prosperous Rochester & Strood next month. But this plays to the stereotype: Tories fighting forleafyareas, hiding from the poorer ones.
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[edit]covered with leaves
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containing much foliage
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in the form of leaves (of some material)
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