Word | boscage, boskage |
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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 |
Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary
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