boskage

English

Noun

boskage (countable and uncountable, plural boskages)

Alternative form of boscage
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
  Thridding the sombre boskage of the wood.
- 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World‎, London: Chatto & Windus:
  The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.
- 1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited […], 3rd edition, London: Chapman & Hall, →OCLC:
  We were at the head of a valley and below us, half a mile distant, grey and gold amid a screen of boskage, shone the dome and columns of an old house.

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