boscage
noun/bɒskɪdʒ/UK/bɑskɪd͡ʒ/US
Etymology
From the Middle English boskage, from the Old French boscage, from Vulgar Latin *boscāticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busk (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).
Definitions
A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
- 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.
- The shadiest boskage covers it perpetually.
- 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.
Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and…
Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
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A tax on wood.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for boscage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA