boscage

noun /bɒskɪdʒ/

1. A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.

   countable, uncountable

   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.

2. Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.

   countable, uncountable

3. Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.

   countable, uncountable

4. A tax on wood.

   countable, uncountable

Where it comes from

From the Middle English boskage, from the Old French boscage, from Vulgar Latin *boscāticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busk (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry boscage (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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