boscage

From the Middle English boskage, from the Old French boscage, Vulgar Latin *boscaticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busc (Compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɒs.kɪdʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bɑs.kɪdʒ/

boscage (countable and uncountable, plural boscages)

1. A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
2. (law) Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
3. (art) Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
4. A tax on wood.

• bocage
• bosk
• bosky

This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.

• bocages

boscage m (oblique plural boscages, nominative singular boscages, nominative plural boscage)

1. Alternative form of boschage