boscage
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- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of boscage
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
“At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.”
“The shadiest boskage covers it perpetually.”
“An abundance of bird life dwells in the luxuriant boscage of the cuttings, and the whole six miles provide a rich field of study for the botanist.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
“At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.”
“The shadiest boskage covers it perpetually.”
“An abundance of bird life dwells in the luxuriant boscage of the cuttings, and the whole six miles provide a rich field of study for the botanist.”
- (countable, uncountable)Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
- (countable, uncountable)Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
- (countable, uncountable)A tax on wood.
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Etymology
From the Middle English boskage, 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”).
Words you can make from boscage
84 playable · top: SOCAGE (9 pts)
Best play socage 9 points5-letter words
1 word4-letter words
31 words- CABS 8 pts
- COBS 8 pts
- SCAB 8 pts
- BAGS 7 pts
- BEGS 7 pts
- BOGS 7 pts
- CAGE 7 pts
- COGS 7 pts
- GABS 7 pts
- GOBS 7 pts
- SCAG 7 pts
- ACES 6 pts
- BAES 6 pts
- BASE 6 pts
- BOAS 6 pts
- CASE 6 pts
- ECOS 6 pts
- OBAS 6 pts
- OBES 6 pts
- OCAS 6 pts
- SABE 6 pts
- SOBA 6 pts
- SOCA 6 pts
- AGES 5 pts
- EGOS 5 pts
- GAES 5 pts
- GOAS 5 pts
- GOES 5 pts
- SAGE 5 pts
- SAGO 5 pts
- SEGO 5 pts
3-letter words
39 words- CAB 7 pts
- COB 7 pts
- BAG 6 pts
- BEG 6 pts
- BOG 6 pts
- COG 6 pts
- GAB 6 pts
- GOB 6 pts
- ABS 5 pts
- ACE 5 pts
- BAE 5 pts
- BAS 5 pts
- BES 5 pts
- BOA 5 pts
- BOS 5 pts
- COS 5 pts
- ECO 5 pts
- OBA 5 pts
- OBE 5 pts
- OCA 5 pts
- SAB 5 pts
- SAC 5 pts
- SEC 5 pts
- SOB 5 pts
- SOC 5 pts
- AGE 4 pts
- AGO 4 pts
- AGS 4 pts
- EGO 4 pts
- GAE 4 pts
- GAS 4 pts
- GOA 4 pts
- GOS 4 pts
- SAG 4 pts
- SEG 4 pts
- OES 3 pts
- OSE 3 pts
- SAE 3 pts
- SEA 3 pts
2-letter words
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