boscage

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The journey took 48 hours with a stopover in a Bates-style motel in the one-horse town of Marblemount – the last services for 70 wild miles of boscage and bears.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2021

When he came to paint it, Stubbs set it in an English wood, its black-and-white hide in almost shocking contrast to the green tunnels of boscage and filtered shade that stretch behind it.

From Time Magazine Archive

We could not see the façade of the shaîtya on account of the concealing boscage of trees.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various

The white bathing tents which Mrs. Goldsmith had pitched stood out picturesquely, in harmonious contrast with the rich boscage that began to climb the hills in the background.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel

I. The shadow of the houses leave behind, In the cool boscage of the grove reclined, The wine of friendship from love's goblet drink, And entertain with cheerful speech the mind.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma