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
For the most part a shaggy wilderness, the ground lies in strangely broken undulations, much hidden with shrub and tangled boscage.
From By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by Gissing, George
It must have been cowering in the boscage above, on the opposite bank, for several minutes.
From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann
Whereas if flame, already fashioned, lay Stored up within the forests, then the fires Could not for any time be kept unseen, But would be laying all the wildwood waste And burning all the boscage.
From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery
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