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
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
Leo started up, and sought with eager eyes to penetrate the thick boscage.
From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann
I. The shadow of the houses leave behind, In the cool boscage of the grove reclined, The wine of friendship from love's goblet drink, And entertain with cheerful speech the mind.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma
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