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

It was a perfect June night, the heavens a sable pall studded with innumerable star-clusters, the little vagrant breezes redolent of new mown hay, a nightingale singing in a nearby boscage.

From In Jeopardy by Sutphen, Van Tassel

Caterham once was a valley; Aubrey wrote of it: "In this parish are many pleasant little vallies, stored with wild thyme, sweet marjoram, barnell, boscage, and beeches."

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

The moonlight twinkled and sifted through the boscage, and the wind was fresh and cool.

From The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Field, Eugene