boskage
English
Noun
boskage (countable and uncountable, plural boskages)
- Alternative form of boscage
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1008064829:
- Thridding the sombre boskage of the wood.
- 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Chatto & Windus:
- The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.
- 1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited […], 3rd edition, London: Chapman & Hall, OCLC 54130892:
- We were at the head of a valley and below us, half a mile distant, grey and gold amid a screen of boskage, shone the dome and columns of an old house.
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