bosk
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bosk
1250–1300; Middle English boske, variant of busk ( e ) < Old Norse buskr bush 1
Example Sentences
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We were on our way to Versailles to see how things were coming along at the bosk.
From The New Yorker ● May 30, 2015
Benech scampered joyfully up a muddy incline toward the center of the bosk.
From The New Yorker ● May 30, 2015
Your sleek patrician sisters dwell On lawns where gleams the shrub's trim bosk, In terraced gardens, tended well, Near pebbled walk and quaint kiosk.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
All his afternoons must have been those of a faun—a faun who with impeccable solicitude put on paper what he saw in the heart of the bosk or down by the banks of secret rivers.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
Sometimes about the painted kioskThe mimic soldiers strut and stride,Sometimes the blue-eyed brigands hideIn the bleak tangles of the bosk.
From Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
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