Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A by-form of
boscage .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
boscage .
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Examples
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The last tactical innovation in the bocage was the invention of the "Culin hedgerow device."
Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003
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We had advanced some half a mile; our casualties were 122,35 killed … As long as I live that word bocage will haunt me, with memories of ruined countryside, dust, orchards, sunken lanes and the silly little shoots that were all I could find for the guns.
Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984
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We had advanced some half a mile; our casualties were 122,35 killed … As long as I live that word bocage will haunt me, with memories of ruined countryside, dust, orchards, sunken lanes and the silly little shoots that were all I could find for the guns.
Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984
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We had advanced some half a mile; our casualties were 122,35 killed … As long as I live that word bocage will haunt me, with memories of ruined countryside, dust, orchards, sunken lanes and the silly little shoots that were all I could find for the guns.
Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984
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We had advanced some half a mile; our casualties were 122,35 killed … As long as I live that word bocage will haunt me, with memories of ruined countryside, dust, orchards, sunken lanes and the silly little shoots that were all I could find for the guns.
Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984
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The bocage is a classic enclosed landscape, consisting of a mosaic of plots that are surrounded by stonewalls or hedges.
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By his reckoning, Mr Brown has led us through the Normandy bocage, but the Ardennes and the Rhine lie ahead.
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By his reckoning, Mr Brown has led us through the Normandy bocage, but the Ardennes and the Rhine lie ahead.
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Panzergrenadiers - late war 1500 pts FFA on a 6x4 bocage table
A Visit to Grigseys 01/05/08 Cromwell MkI 2008
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Panzergrenadiers - late war 1500 pts FFA on a 6x4 bocage table
Archive 2008-05-01 Cromwell MkI 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word bocage
"As the noise of the helicopter's engine faded out on the roof above them, Riggs and Macready bent down and inspected the crude catamaran hidden behind a screen of bocage under the balcony."
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard, p 73 of the 50th anniversary edition
September 3, 2012