bocage
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
bocage (plural bocages)
- Alternative spelling of boscage
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the Old French boscage, from Vulgar Latin *boscāticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busk (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).
Noun[edit]
bocage m (plural bocages)
- (dated) grove
- mixed woodlands and pastures
- hedgerow country, a rural landscape where parcels are separated by slightly elevated hedgerows
Further reading[edit]
- “bocage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- French terms derived from Old French
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- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French dated terms