bocage
English
Noun
bocage (plural bocages)
- Alternative spelling of boscage
French
Etymology
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
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
- “bocage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.