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

I. The shadow of the houses leave behind, In the cool boscage of the grove reclined, The wine of friendship from love's goblet drink, And entertain with cheerful speech the mind.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma

Wayworn, heartworn, in agony of suspense, till Quimper friendship get warning, they lie there, squatted under the thick wet boscage; suspicious of the face of man.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

‘See Tennyson’s Dream of F. W. 243, “the sombre boscage of the wood.”

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William