bocage
a decorative motif of trees, branches, or foliage, as in a tapestry or a ceramic figure group.
Origin of bocage
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How to use bocage in a sentence
At Moissy they headed into a one-lane road, both banks thick with bocage.
The other, benign, face of the bocage was its role as an unbelievably productive larder.
These “Rhinos” sliced through the bocage in seconds and changed the course of the battle.
The invasion of Fortress Europe began on the beaches but nearly ended in the tangled bocage of the countryside.
In after years two distinguished members of the profession in France, M. bocage and Mdme.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick Niecks
"Our nobles of Le bocage would not have done such a thing," said the Boquin, throwing back his head.
Autumn Glory | Ren BazinHe asks you to go for him to the bocage, and to beg the mother of Jean Nesmy to let her son come back to be my husband.
Autumn Glory | Ren BazinIn "the soft retirement of my bocage de Bentinck Street" the dog-days pass unheeded.
Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography | George William Erskine RussellAs early as the 1st of May, some symptoms of commotion had been observed in le bocage.
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II | Fleury de Chaboulon.
British Dictionary definitions for bocage
/ (bɒˈkɑːʒ) /
the wooded countryside characteristic of northern France, with small irregular-shaped fields and many hedges and copses
woodland scenery represented in ceramics
Origin of bocage
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