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bosk

American  
[bosk] / bɒsk /

noun

  1. a small wood or thicket, especially of bushes.

bosk British  
/ bɒsk /

noun

  1. literary a small wood of bushes and small trees

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Etymology

Origin of bosk

1250–1300; Middle English boske, variant of busk ( e ) < Old Norse buskr bush 1

Example Sentences

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“It’s really good, and right next to the bosk.”

From The New Yorker

Her eyes were deer-like—not those of a startled fawn, but like a doe's who stands gazing at a perfect park, whose bosks she takes to be real forests.

From Project Gutenberg

What leaps in the bosk but a satyr?

From Project Gutenberg

Some one or something was moving in the bosk.

From Project Gutenberg

Great bosks of ferns grew beside, and here and there a bush burning with autumn color.

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