bocage

bocage (plural bocages)

1. Alternative spelling of boscage.

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”).

• IPA^(key): /bɔ.kaʒ/

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bocage m (plural bocages)

1. (dated) grove
2. mixed woodlands and pastures
3. hedgerow country, a rural landscape where parcels are separated by slightly elevated hedgerows

• “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
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “bocage”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “bocage” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “bocage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012