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Boscage

//bɑskɪd͡ʒ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket. countable, uncountable

    "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."

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

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”).

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