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boscage

American  
[bos-kij] / ˈbɒs kɪdʒ /
Or boskage

noun

  1. a mass of trees or shrubs; wood, grove, or thicket.


boscage British  
/ ˈbɒskɪdʒ /

noun

  1. literary a mass of trees and shrubs; thicket

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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

Cunningly pictured on the ivory walls Were rolling hills, cool lakes, and boscage green, And all the summer landscape's various pomp.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma

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

He pointed to a depth of the boscage where it had almost an emerald quality, it was so vivid, so intense.

From The Story of a Play A Novel by Howells, William Dean