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copse

[kops] / kɒps /


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I remember pulling my rental car into the parking lot of a small church tucked away in a copse.

From Slate • Oct. 24, 2024

The trench is in a wooded copse, surrounded by fields, a thick canopy of trees provides cover.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2024

Around every bend are tiny rewards - a copse of trees with the Olympic rings poking out, a tiny reflecting-pool shrine that exhorts people to “remember here those who gave their lives for peace.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2023

The hulking mass of the Hagia Sophia, the sixth-century church that became the enduring symbol of Christendom, seemed like a basilica to me again, surrounded by a copse of slim, tapered minarets.

From New York Times • May 12, 2022

He walked to the window and looked out onto the copse, swept by the first heavy rain of summer.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill




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