单词 | boscage |
释义 | boscageboskagen. 1. A mass of growing trees or shrubs; a thicket, grove; woody undergrowth; sylvan scenery. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.c1400 |
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