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BOSCAGE

Volume 3 · 55 words · 1797 Edition

the same with a grove or thicket.

a law sense, is that food which trees yield to cattle; as malt, &c. But Manwood says, to be quit of boleage is to be discharged of paying any duty for windfall wood in the forest.

Boscage, among painters, denotes a landscape re- presenting much wood and trees.