boscage

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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

Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

Whereas if flame, already fashioned, lay Stored up within the forests, then the fires Could not for any time be kept unseen, But would be laying all the wildwood waste And burning all the boscage.

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery

Cunningly pictured on the ivory walls Were rolling hills, cool lakes, and boscage green, And all the summer landscape's various pomp.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma