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

Our suns were all too fierce for him; Our rude winds pierced him through and through; But Heaven has valleys cool and dim, And boscage sweet with starry dew.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 by Various

On such a spot fairies would pitch for their revels, noticing how the curtains of the shrubberies would mask their troopings, and the extending wings of boscage give surprise to their exits and entrances.

From England by Fox, Frank, Sir

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