boscage

Meanings

1. A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
2. Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
3. Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
4. A tax on wood.

Etymology

From the Middle English boskage, from the Old French boscage, from Vulgar Latin *boscāticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busk (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).