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‖ macchia|ˈmakia| [Corsican It.] = maquis i.
[1868J. A. Symonds Let. 4 May (1967) I. 805 The sea shore [of Corsica]..is a tangle of sweet & splendid flowers... The whole air is fragrant with multitudinous scents wafted from these ‘macchi’, as the natives call them. ]1924A. Huxley Let. 3 Dec. (1969) 238 The mountain is covered with woods of cork trees and a kind of macchia or bush of fragrant shrubs. 1936Nature 2 May 735/2 Such characteristic native vegetation as the beautiful ‘fijnbos’ (the macchia or maquis of the south-west Cape) may be irretrievably damaged by fire. 1962Times 24 Mar. 11/4 A cottage lost in the macchia. 1966C. Mackenzie My Life & Times V. 133 One looked down..into the macchia of Ventrosa. |