boscage

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The flower-parterres shall be riven up; the Chestnut Avenues shall fall: time-honoured boscages, under which the Opera Hamadryads were wont to wander, not inexorable to men.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

It was late in the afternoon, and the shadows were long in the boscages of the park and upon the fresh green terraces of the château.

From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot

They rise amid leafy boscages beside the streams, which form their only power; for we have disused steam altogether, with all the offences to the eye and ear which its use brought into the world.

From A Traveler from Altruria: Romance by Howells, William Dean

The grounds are ornamented with rustic alcoves, boscages, and a bowery walk, all in good taste.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 by Various