boscage

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boscage

/bɒskɪdʒ/ UK
/bɑskɪd͡ʒ/ US

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”).

noun boscages · boskage

countable, uncountable A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket. 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.
countable, uncountable Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
countable, uncountable Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
countable, uncountable A tax on wood.

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noun a grove or thicket

Русский	ро́ща róšča, подле́сок podlésok, куста́рник kustárnik

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@misc{boscage_2026,
  title = {boscage},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/boscage},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}