Definition of "boscage"

boscage

/bɒskɪdʒ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural boscages
1. A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
  Quotations
  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.
  1811, Ben Jonson, The Dramatic Works: Embellished with Portraits, volume 4, page 571
  The shadiest boskage covers it perpetually.
  1888, “T'Yeer-na-n-Oge”, in W. B. Yeats, editor, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
  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.
  1950 March, Eric S. Tonks, “The Whitacre—Hampton-in-Arden Line, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 187
2. (law) Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
3. (art) Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
4. A tax on wood.