Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mass of trees or shrubs; a thicket.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mass of growing trees or shrubs; woods, groves, or thickets; sylvan scenery.
- noun In old law, probably, food or sustenance for cattle which is yielded by bushes and trees.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
- noun (O. Eng. Law) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place set with
trees ormass ofshrubbery , agrove orthicket . - noun law Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to
cattle . - noun art Among
painters , the term is used for a picture depicting a wooded scene. - noun A
tax onwood .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They had not gone far into the wood; Schilsky knew of a secluded seat, which was screened by a kind of boscage; and here they had remained.
Maurice Guest 2003
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The noun 'boscage' = jungle or _bush_ (M.E. _busch_,
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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There were none of those cataclysms of mire and sloughs of black mud and over-tall grasses, none of that miasmatic jungle with its noxious emissions; it was just such a scene as one may find before an English mansion — a noble expanse of lawn and sward, with boscage sufficient to agreeably diversify it.
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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Wherefore we bent our course thither, where we saw the appearance of land, all that night; and in the dawning of next day we might plainly discern that it was a land flat to our sight, and full of boscage, which made it show the more dark.
The New Atlantis 2002
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The band, hidden in a small, thick boscage of the wide gardens, broke into a mockingly cheerful air.
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We could not see the façade of the shaîtya on account of the concealing boscage of trees.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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Now, it seems to me that when you old Aryans came from -- from -- well, from wherever you _did_ come from -- you branched out at first into a superb magnificence of religions and sentiments and imaginations and other boscage.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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Polished automobiles gliding noiselessly through massed purple and silver shrubberies, receded into bland glooms of well-thought-out boscage.
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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I do not know barnell, but the last twenty years have set many houses among the boscage.
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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Caterham once was a valley; Aubrey wrote of it: "In this parish are many pleasant little vallies, stored with wild thyme, sweet marjoram, barnell, boscage, and beeches."
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
super-kawy commented on the word boscage
A mass of trees or shrubs; a thicket. (Middle English boskage from Old French boscage from bosc, forest of Germanic origin.)
September 22, 2009
rhialtothearchivist commented on the word boscage
I believe I have seen the word used to name the pudendal hair of a woman in a dirty book I saw some while ago. I think the work may have been authored by John Colleton.
September 27, 2010
snfitzsimmons@aol.com commented on the word boscage
{word of the day 10 Sept. 2010}
September 28, 2010
mkluver1 commented on the word boscage
just read this word on word of the day.
October 1, 2010
1418330794 commented on the word boscage
Alt. bocage, as in "On a sunny day, a traveller (sic) could walk for hours and emerge from the bocage as pale as a ghost." Robb, The Discovery of France, p.15.
March 29, 2011