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Definitions for boscage
ˈbɒs kɪdʒboscage
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boscagenoun
A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
boscagenoun
Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
boscagenoun
Among painters, the term is used for a picture depicting a wooded scene.
Etymology: From the boskage, from the boscage, from bosk.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Boscagenoun
Wood, or woodlands; representation of woods.
Etymology: boscage, Fr.
We bent our course thither, where we saw the appearance of land; and, the next day, we might plainly discern that it was a land flat to our sight, and full of boscage, which made it shew the more dark. Francis Bacon, N. Atlantis.
Chearful paintings in feasting and banqueting rooms; graver stories in galleries; landskips and boscage, and such wild works, in open terraces, or summer-houses. Henry Wotton.
Webster Dictionary
Boscagenoun
a growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape
Boscagenoun
food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Boscage
bosk′āj, n. thick foliage: woodland. [Fr. boscage, bocage—Low L. boscus (hence Fr. bois), conn. with Ger. busch, Eng. Bush.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of boscage in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of boscage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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