boskage

English

Noun

boskage (countable and uncountable, plural boskages)

1. Alternative form of boscage
   • Tennyson,

     Thridding the somber boskage of the wood.

   • 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World:

     The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “boskage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)