boskage

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

And now, from brake and thicket, from dewy mysteries of green boskage burst forth the sweet, glad chorus of bird-song, full throated, passionate of joy.

From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Jeffery Farnol

For a while I had noticed the road seemed flanked by a mass of boskage below it on the right-hand side.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs

Then verily must I chide thee, Fidelis, for—" "Then verily will I unto yon boskage, messire, to prepare us a fire 'gainst the 'beasts that raven,' and our bracken beds.

From Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol