macchia

This section of the highway cuts through the island's rough interior, offering travelers views of stark rocky mountains, shady eucalyptus groves around gurgling streams, and the omnipresent tan-and-green-dappled shrublands Italians refer to as Mediterranean macchia.

Enjoy the Ride 2010

Bezbledny Rycerz Cavaliere senza macchia è un corto corto, scritto, diretto ed animato da Waldemar Mordarski e prodotto presso lo Studio filmowe Odeon.

No Fat Clips!!! : WALDEMAR MORDARSKI – Bezbledny Rycerz 2008

Continuing our route we crossed some park-like glades, with scattered forest trees, and fringed by the graceful shrubbery, the _macchia_, common to both the islands of Corsica and Sardinia.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

On account of some trivial misunderstanding with the authorities, this man was compelled in the early eighties to take to the woods, where he lived a wild life _ (alla campagna; alla macchia) _ for some three years.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

Ridolfi (1646) mentions: “In casa Grimani da Santo Ermagora la Sentenza di Salomone, di bella macchia, colla figura del ministro non finita.”

Giorgione Cook, Herbert 1904

I cast my eye over the space of _macchia_ between us, and decided that I had only his bullet to fear.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The road shunned its depths and, leading me down through the magnificent fringe of it, brought me out upon an open slope, if that can be called open which is densely covered to the height of a man's knees at times, and again to the height of his breast, with my old friend the _macchia_.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Now the _macchia_, as I soon discovered, is prettier to look at than to climb through.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

We had left the _macchia_ far below us, and the road wound between and around sheer scarps of grey granite on the edge of precipices echoing the trickle of waters far below.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

In Spain we know _montebaxos_, or coppice shrubs (as you might call them), and we know _tomillares_, or undergrowth; but in Corsica nature heaps these together with both hands, and the Corsican, in despair of separating them, calls them all _macchia_.

Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903