bocage

English

Noun

bocage (plural bocages)

  1. Alternative spelling of boscage

French

Etymology

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”).

Noun

bocage m (plural bocages)

  1. (dated) grove
  2. mixed woodlands and pastures
  3. hedgerow country, a rural landscape where parcels are separated by slightly elevated hedgerows

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