boscage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of boscage
1350–1400; Middle English boskage < Middle French boscage. See bosk, -age
Example Sentences
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The journey took 48 hours with a stopover in a Bates-style motel in the one-horse town of Marblemount – the last services for 70 wild miles of boscage and bears.
From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2021
When he came to paint it, Stubbs set it in an English wood, its black-and-white hide in almost shocking contrast to the green tunnels of boscage and filtered shade that stretch behind it.
From Time Magazine Archive
More brigades Of British, soiled and sweltering, now are nigh, Who plunge within the boscage of Bossu; Where in the hidden shades and sinuous creeps Life-struggles can be heard, seen but in peeps.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
But, as it happened, a bare fifty seconds elapsed before he came darting out of the boscage and scrambled up the stairway in a sweating hurry, two steps at a time.
From Major Vigoureux by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
The white bathing tents which Mrs. Goldsmith had pitched stood out picturesquely, in harmonious contrast with the rich boscage that began to climb the hills in the background.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel
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