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Boscage   Listen
noun
boscage  n.  
1.
A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
2.
(O. Eng. Law) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.





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"Boscage" Quotes from Famous Books



... too fierce for him; Our rude winds pierced him through and through; But Heaven has valleys cool and dim, And boscage sweet with starry dew. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862 • Various
... by great cloud-promontories, purple and rose and umber. Directly opposite, just above the crest-line of the hills, hung the nearly full moon, pale as a mere phantom of itself. And from somewhere in the boscage at the garden's end came a lool-lool-lool-lioo-lio, deep and long-drawn, liquid and complaining, which one knew to be ...
— My Friend Prospero • Henry Harland


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