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(botany) Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub. quotations examples
The older man claims to find a measure of peace in Corsica’s wild landscape, and as Mitchell explores the foothills of maquis, fragrant with “the sharp resinous smell of laurel rose and thyme,” he too succumbs.
2007 May 27, Alida Becker, “Season in the Sun”, in New York Times
(historical) The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere. quotations
By this time O.S. membership numbered some 4,500, and many of those who escaped imprisonment either fled abroad or formed the nucleus of a growing maquis in the more inaccessible parts of the country.
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 75