bocage

[ boh-kahzh ]

/ boʊˈkɑʒ /

noun Fine Arts.

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

Nearby words

bobweight, bobwhite, bobèche, boca raton, bocaccio, bocage, boccaccio, boccherini, boccie, boccioni, bocconcini

Origin of bocage

1635–45; < French; Old French boscage boscage

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Examples from the Web for bocage

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

Bocage is a separate district in the Departments of the Orne and Calvados.
Rambles in Normandy|Francis Miltoun
This is known as the Bocage, a name which suggests rich foliage.
Normandy|G. E. Mitton
A similar mercy was vouchsafed to this priest of the Bocage.
Balthasar|Anatole France
The play was read by Bocage, who took the principal part, that of Brutus, when it was brought out at the Odéon.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877.|Various

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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