boscage
nounUK /bɒskɪdʒ/ · US /bɑskɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology From the Middle English boskage, from the Old French boscage, from Vulgar Latin *boscāticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busk (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).
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A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
- At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.1811, Ben Jonson, The Dramatic Works: Embellished with Portraits, volume 4, page 571:
- The shadiest boskage covers it perpetually.1888, “T'Yeer-na-n-Oge”, in W. B. Yeats, editor, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales:
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- An abundance of bird life dwells in the luxuriant boscage of the cuttings, and the whole six miles provide a rich field of study for the botanist.1950 March, Eric S. Tonks, “The Whitacre—Hampton-in-Arden Line, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 187:
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Law Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
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A tax on wood.