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boscage

/bɒskɪdʒ/US/bɑskɪd͡ʒ/

boscage noun: a place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.

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
    • The shadiest boskage covers it perpetually.1888, “T'Yeer-na-n-Oge”, in W. B. Yeats, editor, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
  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.

boscage meaning in Tamil and Bengali

boscage in Tamil

மரத்தொகுதி, செடித்திரள், அடர்த்தியான இலைத்தொகுதி

boscage in Bengali

ঘন বন, ঝোপজঙ্গল

Forms of boscage

pluralboscages
alternative formboskage

Origin of boscage

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”).

Questions about boscage

What does boscage mean?
Boscage means a place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
What is boscage in Tamil?
Boscage in Tamil is மரத்தொகுதி, செடித்திரள், அடர்த்தியான இலைத்தொகுதி. See Boscage meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is boscage?
Boscage is a noun.
How do you pronounce boscage?
Boscage is pronounced /bɒskɪdʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of boscage?
The plural of boscage is boscages.

Words near boscage in the dictionary

  1. bosberaads
  2. bosbok
  3. bosboks
  4. Bosbury
  5. Bosc
  6. boscage
  7. boscages
  8. boscalid
  9. Boscarne
  10. Boscastle
  11. Boscawen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boscage (page history and authors); boscage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); boscage (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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