bocage
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bocage (plural bocages)
- Alternative spelling of boscage
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]bocage m (plural bocages)
- (dated) grove
- mixed woodlands and pastures
- hedgerow country, a rural landscape where parcels are separated by slightly elevated hedgerows
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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