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

They had not gone far into the wood; Schilsky knew of a secluded seat, which was screened by a kind of boscage; and here they had remained.

From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel

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