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
Cunningly pictured on the ivory walls Were rolling hills, cool lakes, and boscage green, And all the summer landscape's various pomp.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma
There wasn't a tree about, not a sign of boscage, except some miles away where the hills began to slope upward.
From The Adventures of Kathlyn by MacGrath, Harold
Once I stumbled upon a cemetery of old gilt tombs, absolutely overgrown and lost, and thrice caught glimpses of little trellised yalis choked in boscage.
From The Purple Cloud by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)
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