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单词 boscage
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boscageboskagen.

Brit. /ˈbɒskɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈbɑskɪdʒ/
Forms: Also Middle English buscage, (1600s boxage).
Etymology: Middle English boskage , < Old French boscage (modern French bocage ) wooded country, a thicket < late Latin boscāticum , < late Latin boscu-m wood: see -age suffix; compare the Italian equivalent boscaggio.
1. A mass of growing trees or shrubs; a thicket, grove; woody undergrowth; sylvan scenery.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush
shaw755
thicketa1000
thyvela1000
greavec1050
wood-shawc1275
boscagec1400
greenwood shawc1405
thickc1430
brakec1440
shaw of wood1462
queach1486
bush1523
tuft1555
bushment1587
bocage1644
cripple1675
virgult1736
bluffc1752
thick-set1766
sylvagea1774
thicket-maze1813
bosk1815
woodlet1821
rush1822
puckerbrush1867
c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 1671 Als he went in that boskage, He fond a letil ermytage.
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxxxxix. 132 She..suffred soo moche euylle and meschyef in the buscage.
a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 50 And with such corage Hunte the boskage.
1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1650) 1 A Land Flat to our sight, and full of Boscage.
a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Surrey (1718) IV. 173 Thick Boscages of Box-Trees.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women lxviii, in Poems (new ed.) 139 The sombre boskage of the wood.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. vii. 260 The cool boscages and orangeries of the place.
2. The pictorial representation of wooded landscape; also, a decorative design imitating branches and foliage. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > of living thing > plants
water flower1480
fruitage1600
boscage1610
foliage1699
arborescence1856
phyllomorph1889
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. vi. 58 Compartiments are Blankes or Figures bordered with Anticke Boscage or Crotesko-woorke.
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 59 Chearful Paintings in Feasting and Banquetting Rooms..Landskips and Boscage, and such wild works in open Tarraces.
1679 The Confinement 57 Boscage within each Chamber must be shown, Or the mean pile no Architect will own.
3. Law. (Meaning disputed; see quots.) Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > on other commodities
boscage1483
maletent1543
stackage1587
powder tax1775
newspaper stamp duty1815
newspaper stamp1826
timber due1883
carbon tax1979
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 145/2 He gaf to them of that hows the fee ryall of that buscage.
1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest xii. f. 69v To be quit..of Boscage..is to be discharged of paying any duty for windfall woods.
1672 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter sig. Lvb Boscage..is such sustenance as Wood and Trees yield to Cattel, viz. Mast.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Boscage sometimes denoted a tax or duty laid on wood brought into the city.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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