Dictionary

boscage en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /bɑskɪd͡ʒ/ (General-American)
• /bɒskɪdʒ/ (UK)
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Etymology

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”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
   • 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. 1950 March, Eric S. Tonks, “The Whitacre—Hampton-in-Arden Line, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 187:
   • 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. 1811, Ben Jonson, The Dramatic Works: Embellished with Portraits, volume 4, page 571:
   • The shadiest boskage covers it perpetually. 1888, “T'Yeer-na-n-Oge”, in W. B. Yeats, editor, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales:
2. (countable, uncountable) Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
3. (countable, uncountable) Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
4. (countable, uncountable) A tax on wood.

Forms

Relateds

bosky · bosk · bocage

Translations (5)

ru ро́ща (a grove or thicket) · ru подле́сок (a grove or thicket) · bg гъсталак (a grove or thicket) · sv buskage (a grove or thicket) · ru куста́рник (a grove or thicket)