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Boskage Boscage N Mass Shrubs Thicket Roses Bloom

Word boscage, boskage
Definition n. A mass of shrubs; a thicket.
Sentence The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.
Source Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, p. 30

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