boskage

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A form of boscage — A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.

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nounboskage (countable and uncountable, plural boskages)

plural boskages

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of boscage.

    Thridding the sombre boskage of the wood.

    1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
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    The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.

    1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus

    We were at the head of a valley and below us, half a mile distant, grey and gold amid a screen of boskage, shone the dome and columns of an old house.

    1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited […], London: Chapman & Hall, →OCLC
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