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boskage

boskage \bos"kage\, n. Same as Boscage.

Thridding the somber boskage of the wood.
--Tennyson.

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boskage

n. (alternative form of boscage English)

Usage examples of "boskage".

And now, from brake and thicket, from dewy mysteries of green boskage burst forth the sweet, glad chorus of bird-song, full throated, passionate of joy.

The burn, small with the summer drought, made a far-away tinkling, the sweet scents of pine and fern were about him, the dense boskage where it met the sky had in the dark a sharp marmoreal outline.

He flitted along the rim of the boskage until he reached this verdant tongue.

Further and further yet, until he was lost among the thickening stems and denser boskage of some rising ground beyond.

For myself--I was one of the tenants--I would far prefer living in a workhouse to inhabiting those low-pitched oak-panelled rooms, and I would sooner look from my garret windows on to the squalor and grime of Whitechapel than from the diamond-shaped and leaded panes of the Manor of Trevor Major on to the boskage of its cool thickets, and the glimmering of its clear chalk streams where the quick trout glance among the waving water-weeds and over the chalk and gravel of its sliding rapids.

This way thrust itself like a black tongue into the boskage and vanished in the depths.

The bowers and boskages stretched behind them, the artificial lakes and cockneyfied landscapes, making all the region bright with the sense of air and space, and raw natural tints, and vegetation too diminutive to overshadow.