Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A grove; a thicket or small plantation in a garden, park, etc., formed of trees, shrubs, or tall plants. Also written
busket .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gardening) A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
grove orcopse oftrees , athicket .
Etymologies
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French bosquet, from Italian boschetto, diminutive of bosco ("wood"), from Late Latin busca, buscus or boscus from Germanic *busk (liken Old High German busk).
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Examples
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The horns were blown, and presently there came up from hill and hommoc, wood and bosket, rock and dingle, all around, an answering volley.
Margaret 1851
qms commented on the word bosket
What call you yon small grove of trees?
Does copse or does spinney more please?
Should coppice I gloss it
Or deem it a bosket?
The choices make Ernest's tongue freeze.
Is it forest or wood I should make it?
Is dingle correct or will brake fit?
Is it really a thicket
Or is boscage the ticket?
Should I show my confusion or fake it?
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September 5, 2014