Definition of "boscage" []

• A mass of trees or shrubs; a thicket. (noun)

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• "They had not gone far into the wood; Schilsky knew of a secluded seat, which was screened by a kind of boscage; and here they had remained."
• "The noun 'boscage' = jungle or _bush_ (M.E. _busch_,"
• "There were none of those cataclysms of mire and sloughs of black mud and over-tall grasses, none of that miasmatic jungle with its noxious emissions; it was just such a scene as one may find before an English mansion — a noble expanse of lawn and sward, with boscage sufficient to agreeably diversify it."