boscage
English
Etymology
From the Middle English boskage, from the Old French boscage, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *boscaticum, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin boscus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *busc (Compare Middle Dutch busch), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).
Pronunciation
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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, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
- A tax on wood.
Translations
a grove or thicket
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Old French
Noun
boscage oblique singular, m (oblique plural boscages, nominative singular boscages, nominative plural boscage)
- Alternative form of boschage
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