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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BOSC'AGE, n. [Eng.bush.]
1. Wood; under-wood; perhaps, sometimes, lands covered with underwood; also, a thicket.
2. In old laws, food or sustenance for cattle, which is yielded by bushes and trees.
3. With painters, a landscape, representing thickets of wood.

Merriam Webster's

also boskage noun Etymology: Middle English boskage, from Anglo-French boscage, from bois forest, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German busk forest, bush Date: 14th century a growth of trees or shrubs ; thicket

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also boskage) 1 masses of trees or shrubs. 2 wooded scenery. Etymology: ME f. OF boscage f. Gmc: cf. BUSH(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Boscage Bos"cage, n. [OF. boscage grove, F. bocage, fr. LL. boscus, buscus, thicket, wood. See 1st Bush.] 1. A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape. 2. (O. Eng. Law) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n.; (also boskage) 1. Thicket, grove, shrubbery. 2. Foliage, leafage, shrubbiness, leafiness.

Moby Thesaurus

bosket, brake, canebrake, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, coppice, copse, copsewood, covert, frith, motte, thicket, thickset, underbrush, undergrowth, undershrubs, underwood