bocage

[ boh-kahzh ]

/ boʊˈkɑʒ /

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noun Fine Arts.

a decorative motif of trees, branches, or foliage, as in a tapestry or a ceramic figure group.

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Origin of bocage

1635–45; <French; Old French boscageboscage

Words nearby bocage

bob veal, bobweight, bobwhite, bob wire, bocaccio, bocage, Boca Raton, Boccaccio, Boccherini, boccie, Boccioni

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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 Deadly Trap Behind D-Day’s Beaches|Clive Irving|June 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The other, benign, face of the bocage was its role as an unbelievably productive larder.
The Deadly Trap Behind D-Day’s Beaches|Clive Irving|June 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
These “Rhinos” sliced through the bocage in seconds and changed the course of the battle.
The Deadly Trap Behind D-Day’s Beaches|Clive Irving|June 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The invasion of Fortress Europe began on the beaches but nearly ended in the tangled bocage of the countryside.
The Deadly Trap Behind D-Day’s Beaches|Clive Irving|June 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST

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 Bazin
He 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 Bazin
In "the soft retirement of my bocage de Bentinck Street" the dog-days pass unheeded.
Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography|George William Erskine Russell
As 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

bocage

/ (bɒˈkɑːʒ) /

noun

the wooded countryside characteristic of northern France, with small irregular-shaped fields and many hedges and copses

woodland scenery represented in ceramics

Word Origin for bocage

C17: from French, from Old French bosc; see boscage

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