#164 boscage/boskage

boscage/boskage- literary- a mass of trees and shrubs, thicket; also bosk

C14 from Old French bosc

I stumbled upon a cemetery of old gilt tombs, absolutely overgrown and lost, and thrice caught glimpses of little trellised yalis choked in boscage.

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