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
Our suns were all too fierce for him; Our rude winds pierced him through and through; But Heaven has valleys cool and dim, And boscage sweet with starry dew.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various
They had not gone far into the wood; Schilsky knew of a secluded seat, which was screened by a kind of boscage; and here they had remained.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
The moonlight twinkled and sifted through the boscage, and the wind was fresh and cool.
From The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Eugene Field
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