boscage

Meaning

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

• From the Middle English boskage, from the Old French boscage, from Vulgar Latin *boscaticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busk (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz ("forest, woods").