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boscage

[bos-kij] / ˈbɒs kɪdʒ /


NOUN
copse
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The journey took 48 hours with a stopover in a Bates-style motel in the one-horse town of Marblemount – the last services for 70 wild miles of boscage and bears.

From The Guardian Feb. 16, 2021

When he came to paint it, Stubbs set it in an English wood, its black-and-white hide in almost shocking contrast to the green tunnels of boscage and filtered shade that stretch behind it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our suns were all too fierce for him; Our rude winds pierced him through and through; But Heaven has valleys cool and dim, And boscage sweet with starry dew.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various

And from somewhere in the boscage at the garden's end came a lool-lool-lool-lioo-liô, deep and long-drawn, liquid and complaining, which one knew to be the preliminary piping-up of Philomel.

From My Friend Prospero by Henry Harland

A mockingbird was singing from out the boscage of the laurel near at hand, and the night wind was astir.

From The Frontiersmen by Mary Noailles Murfree




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