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Dutch
Etymology
Compound of pest (“plague, pestilence”) + bos (“forest”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛst.bɔs/
- Hyphenation: pest‧bos
Noun
pestbos n (plural pestbossen, diminutive pestbosje n)
- (Netherlands, chiefly diminutive) a small, densely grown tract of forest in a pasture, where livestock were buried after dying from a contagious disease
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