boscage

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But first she ordered her to go out with her to see the place where they intended to have the theatricals: a pretty bit of natural boscage--white birches, pines, and oaks--faced by a stretch of smooth turf, where a young man in a flannel blazer was painting a tennis-court in the grass.

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  • Some few seasons ago a fisherman saw, far on the horizon, renowned Hy Brazel, where he who touches shall find no more labour or care, nor cynic laughter, but shall go walking about under shadiest boscage, and enjoy the conversation of Cuchullin and his heroes. —  The Celtic Twilight
  • But first she ordered her to go out with her to see the place where they intended to have the theatricals: a pretty bit of natural boscage--white birches, pines, and oaks--faced by a stretch of smooth turf, where a young man in a flannel blazer was painting a tennis-court in the grass. —  Annie Kilburn : a Novel
  • All the generations of the wood and road, the combe and the river, the quarry and the secluded boscage were in her look. —  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
  • The moonlight twinkled and sifted through the boscage, and the wind was fresh and cool. —  The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
  • Hew'd down the boscage that around them rose, —  Gaut Gurley
 

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  1. Middle English boskage, from Old French boscage, from bosc, forest, of Germanic origin.
 

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/ˈbɑskəj/
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