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Webster 1913 Edition


boscage

bos′cage

,
Noun.
[OF.
boscage
grove, F.
bocage
, fr. LL.
boscus
,
buscus
, thicket, wood. See 1st
Bush
.]
1.
A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
2.
(O. Eng. Law)
Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.

Webster 1828 Edition


Boscage

BOSC'AGE

,
Noun.
[Eng.bush.]
1.
Wood; under-wood; perhaps, sometimes, lands covered with underwood; also, a thicket.
2.
In old laws, food or sustenance for cattle, which is yielded by bushes and trees.
3.
With painters, a landscape, representing thickets of wood.

Definition 2024


boscage

boscage

English

Noun

boscage (countable and uncountable, plural boscages)

  1. A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
  2. (law) Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
  3. (art) Among painters, the term is used for a picture depicting a wooded scene.
  4. A tax on wood.

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Old French

Noun

boscage m (oblique plural boscages, nominative singular boscages, nominative plural boscage)

  1. Alternative form of boschage