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bosquet

British  
/ ˈbɒskɪt /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of bosket

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Turning quickly and noiselessly in the direction from which the sound seemed to have come, he found himself in an instant in a thick and beautiful bosquet.

From Calvert of Strathore by Carter Goodloe

A spectre that impresses as wearing rags under a gorgeous robe, lurks among the foliage of the quiet bosquet beyond the orangerie.

From A Versailles Christmas-Tide by A. S. Boyd

Somewhere near him, though he could not see it, a bosquet of heliotrope and white lilies sent an intoxicating fragrance into the air.

From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

That they might pass without observing me, I stepped hastily into the bosquet, and concealed myself in the thick and leafy cover.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever

That is Julie's grove—'le bosquet de Julie' we call it.

From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Grant Allen

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