bocage
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English
Noun
bocage (plural bocages)
- Alternative spelling of boscage
French
Etymology
From the Old French boscage, from Vulgar Latin *boscāticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busk (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bocage m (plural bocages)
- (dated) grove
- mixed woodlands and pastures
- hedgerow country, a rural landscape where parcels are separated by slightly elevated hedgerows
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Further reading
- “bocage” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
- “bocage” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
- “bocage” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “bocage” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “bocage” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
- “bocage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.