bosky
Americanadjective
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Most Saturday mornings, I stroll half a mile downhill from my tiny apartment in a bosky part of San Francisco to a farmers market.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
The Riverway around me was shaded and bosky.
From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2018
Moving with Pen to an affordable pension, she exults like Lucy Honeychurch in “A Room With a View,” discovering that “our rooms look half over the river and half over a lovely bosky garden.”
From New York Times • May 30, 2017
This immodest undertaking would be set in a bosky area on the promontory that is protected as a nature reserve.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2015
A big white swan full of little children approached my bench, then turned around a bosky islet covered with ducks and paddled back under the dark arch of the bridge.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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