Boscage
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /bɒskɪdʒ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Boscage is a noun meaning A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
Meaning
A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
More Meanings
- (law) Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
- (art) Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
- A tax on wood.
Example Sentences
The shadiest boskage covers it perpetually.
An abundance of bird life dwells in the luxuriant boscage of the cuttings, and the whole six miles provide a rich field of study for the botanist.
At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.
Word Forms
- boscages
- boskage
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include copse, boskage, bocage, bosket, thicket, bosquet.
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