boscage
noun
a mass of trees or shrubs; wood, grove, or thicket.
boskage
-
a variation of
boscage.
Example Sentences
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First in poetry and then in painting, the glimmering, closed Theocritean landscape where gods and shepherds pursue nymphs and shepherdesses amid the boskage was reconstructed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
And now, from brake and thicket, from dewy mysteries of green boskage burst forth the sweet, glad chorus of bird-song, full throated, passionate of joy.
From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Jeffery Farnol
For a while I had noticed the road seemed flanked by a mass of boskage below it on the right-hand side.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
Will your Majesty be pleased to descend to the lower boskage?
From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Edmund Gosse
