boscage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of boscage
1350–1400; Middle English boskage < Middle French boscage. See bosk, -age
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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
For in the gray evening we saw on the mainland a moving mass, like a huge black serpent, unfolding itself from the distant woods and boscage upon the open country.
From Francezka by Molly Elliot Seawell
He pointed to a depth of the boscage where it had almost an emerald quality, it was so vivid, so intense.
From The Story of a Play A Novel by William Dean Howells
Caterham once was a valley; Aubrey wrote of it: "In this parish are many pleasant little vallies, stored with wild thyme, sweet marjoram, barnell, boscage, and beeches."
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson
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