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Boscage   Listen
noun
boscage  n.  
1.
A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
2.
(O. Eng. Law) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.






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"Boscage" Quotes from Famous Books



... annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic. timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst^, frith^, holt, weald^, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage^, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk^, ceja [Sp.], chaparal, motte [U.S.]; arboretum &c 371. bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary^; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... of his puppets whenever their presence became undesirable. They simply said, "Let us stroll in the woods;" or "Come for a walk with me," and he was rid of them. Finally the "Ancient Grove" contained a central patch of boscage in whose cover one of the duellists, arriving on the terrain a little before the time, remained perdu in slumber, undisturbed by a loud conversation carried on within a few feet of him by all the other ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 • Various



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