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Webster 1913 Edition
boscage
bos′cage
,Noun.
1.
A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
2.
(O. Eng. Law)
Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.
Webster 1828 Edition
Boscage
BOSC'AGE
,Noun.
1.
Wood; under-wood; perhaps, sometimes, lands covered with underwood; also, a thicket.2.
In old laws, food or sustenance for cattle, which is yielded by bushes and trees.3.
With painters, a landscape, representing thickets of wood.Definition 2025
boscage
boscage
English
Noun
boscage (countable and uncountable, plural boscages)
- A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
- (law) Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
- (art) Among painters, the term is used for a picture depicting a wooded scene.
- A tax on wood.
Translations
a grove or thicket
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