Crossword clues for boscage
boscage
The Collaborative International Dictionary
boscage \bos"cage\, n. [OF. boscage grove, F. bocage, fr. LL. boscus, buscus, thicket, wood. See 1st Bush.]
A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
(O. Eng. Law) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket. 2 (context legal English) Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle. 3 (context arts English) Among painters, the term is used for a picture depicting a wooded scene. 4 A tax on wood.
Usage examples of "boscage".
By the raised plain were slippy scree paths, so they held onto boscage while they climbed toward the dark.
Some few seasons ago a fisherman saw, far on the horizon, renowned Hy Brazel, where he who touches shall find no more labour or care, nor cynic laughter, but shall go walking about under shadiest boscage, and enjoy the conversation of Cuchullin and his heroes.
Shetani darted out of the boscage, squealing in panic when she saw what was bearing down on her.
There was no sign of a Husky VI or any other model of tripod in any of the thickets and boscages.
Once I stumbled upon a cemetery of old gilt tombs, absolutely overgrown and lost and anon got glimpses of little trellised yalis choked in boscage, as with a listless foot I moved, munching an almond or an olive, though I could vow that olives were not formerly indigenous to any soil so northern.