bosket

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bosket^¹

/ˈbɒskɪt/

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Borrowed from French bosquet, from Italian boschetto, diminutive of bosco (“wood”), from Late Latin busca, buscus or boscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (compare Old High German busk). Doublet of bouquet.

noun boskets · bosquet

A small grove or copse of trees, a thicket. When he returned from a swim in the broad and deep brook beyond the bosquet, with wet hair and tingling skin, Van got the rare treat of finding his foreglimpse of live ivory accurately reproduced [...].

Bosket^²

proper noun Boskets

A surname.

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Русский	боске́т boskét

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@misc{bosket_2026,
  title = {bosket},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bosket},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}