bosket

English

Alternative forms

bosquet

Etymology

Borrowed from French bosquet, from Italian boschetto, diminutive of bosco (“wood”), from Late Latin busca, buscus or boscus from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (compare Old High German busk).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɒskɪt/

Noun

bosket (plural boskets)

A small grove or copse of trees, a thicket.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, page 98:
  When he returned from a swim in the broad and deep brook beyond the bosquet, with wet hair and tingling skin, Van got the rare treat of finding his foreglimpse of live ivory accurately reproduced [...].

单词	bosket
释义	bosket English Alternative forms bosquet Etymology Borrowed from French bosquet, from Italian boschetto, diminutive of bosco (“wood”), from Late Latin busca, buscus or boscus from Proto-Germanic buskaz (compare Old High German busk). Pronunciation IPA^(key): /ˈbɒskɪt/ Noun bosket* (plural boskets) A small grove or copse of trees, a thicket. 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, page 98: When he returned from a swim in the broad and deep brook beyond the bosquet, with wet hair and tingling skin, Van got the rare treat of finding his foreglimpse of live ivory accurately reproduced [...].
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