Oak leaf may refer to:
- Military
- Oak leaf cluster, a U.S. military decoration
- A bronze oak leaf device is also used to signify a Mention in Despatches or the award of the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in Commonwealth militaries
- An additional distinction of Oak Leaves (mit Eichenlaub) was awarded to 883 recipients of the Knight's Cross of the German Iron Cross during the Second World War
- The rank insignia of Major (United States) and Lieutenant Colonel (United States), as well as Lieutenant Commander (United States) and Commander (United States) are oak leaves
- Others
- Any member of the Kallima genus of butterflies
- Oak Leaf, Texas
Famous quotes containing the words oak and/or leaf:
“Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I will not speak of the famous beauty of dead women:
I will say the shape of a leaf lay once on your hair.
Till the world ends and the eyes are out and the mouths broken,
Look! It is there!”
—Archibald MacLeish (18921982)
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