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

For the most part a shaggy wilderness, the ground lies in strangely broken undulations, much hidden with shrub and tangled boscage.

From By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by Gissing, George

Wayworn, heartworn, in agony of suspense, till Quimper friendship get warning, they lie there, squatted under the thick wet boscage; suspicious of the face of man.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

More brigades Of British, soiled and sweltering, now are nigh, Who plunge within the boscage of Bossu; Where in the hidden shades and sinuous creeps Life-struggles can be heard, seen but in peeps.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas