boscage

plural boscages · alternative boskage

1. countableuncountableA place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.

   The shadiest boskage covers it perpetually.

   1888, “T'Yeer-na-n-Oge”, in W. B. Yeats, editor, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

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   At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.

   1811, Ben Jonson, The Dramatic Works: Embellished with Portraits, volume 4, page 571

   An abundance of bird life dwells in the luxuriant boscage of the cuttings, and the whole six miles provide a rich field of study for the botanist.

   1950 March, Eric S. Tonks, “The Whitacre—Hampton-in-Arden Line, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 187

2. countableuncountablelawMast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
3. countableuncountableartAmong painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
4. countableuncountableA tax on wood.