boskage

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First in poetry and then in painting, the glimmering, closed Theocritean landscape where gods and shepherds pursue nymphs and shepherdesses amid the boskage was reconstructed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Will your Majesty be pleased to descend to the lower boskage?

From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund

Blue seas gemmed with verdant islands, rocky beaches from which sprang groves of lofty trees,—mountain ranges clothed with boskage and suggesting cool streams in their valleys—enticed us onward.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

The first angle made by the zigzags was thickly covered with a boskage of pines.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)