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

For a while I had noticed the road seemed flanked by a mass of boskage below it on the right-hand side.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur

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)

The first angle made by the zigzags was thickly covered with a boskage of pines.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)