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bocage

bocage is the alternative spelling of boscage.

Meaning of boscage

Noun

boscage (countable and uncountable, plural boscages)

  1. 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.1811, Ben Jonson, The Dramatic Works: Embellished with Portraits, volume 4, page 571
  2. Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
  3. Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
  4. A tax on wood.

Forms of bocage

pluralbocages

Questions about bocage

What is bocage the alternative spelling of?
Bocage is the alternative spelling of boscage.

Words near bocage in the dictionary

  1. bocaccios
  2. bocachica
  3. bocachicas
  4. bocachico
  5. bocachicos
  6. bocage
  7. bocages
  8. bocal
  9. bocals
  10. Bocanegra
  11. Bocanegras

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