boskage

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First in poetry and then in painting, the glimmering, closed Theocritean landscape where gods and shepherds pursue nymphs and shepherdesses amid the boskage was reconstructed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

And there at last was the cave-mouth hidden under the boskage of the leaves.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Along their banks the dense, evergreen boskage lay soft and rich as velvet.

From Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

Will your Majesty be pleased to descend to the lower boskage?

From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund