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Definition of "bosquet" []

  • A small grove; a thicket. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "bosquet" in a sentence
  • "Tuesday, May 19, 2009 paris day 4 we took the train out to the château de versailles, and toured the castle and the surrounding town. then we headed back into paris for an AMAZING dinner at le bosquet (thanks again, rick steves!), a nighttime trip to l'arc de triomphe (with a photo for leslie), and a long walk down the champs élysées."
  • "The aspect of the downs is civilized as the banks of the Solent; and the coast wants nothing to complete the “fine, quiet old-country picture in the wilds of Africa” but herds of kine grazing upon leas shining with a golden glory, or a country seat, backed by the noble virgin forest, such a bosquet as Europe never knew."
  • "These forms, which we may call form G, are exemplified in literature by the forms of the sonnet or of tragedy with the “three unities” (place, time, and action); in music, the forms of the fugue or sonata; in architecture, the peripteros (“array of columns”) or the Ionic order; the bosquet form in Italian and French gardening; the zwiebelmuster (“onion pattern”) design in Saxon por - celain."
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