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Bosket

//ˈbɒskɪt// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A small grove or copse of trees, a thicket.

    "When he returned from a swim in the broad and deep brook beyond the bosquet, with wet hair and tingling skin, Van got the rare treat of finding his foreglimpse of live ivory accurately reproduced [...]."

Etymology

Borrowed from French bosquet, from Italian boschetto, diminutive of bosco (“wood”), from Late Latin busca, buscus or boscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (compare Old High German busk). Doublet of bouquet.

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