boscage
Meanings
Plural: boscages
Noun
- A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
- Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
- Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
- A tax on wood.
Origin / Etymology
From the Middle English boskage, 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”).
Scrabble Score: 12
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Words With Friends Score: 15
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