Boscage
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle. countable, uncountable
- 3 Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene. countable, uncountable
- 4 A tax on wood. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"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."
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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