boskageとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

boskage (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 boskages)

1. Alternative form of boscage
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 1008064829:

     Thridding the sombre boskage of the wood.

   • 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World‎^[1], Chatto & Windus:

     The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.

   • 1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited […], 3rd edition, London: Chapman & Hall, OCLC 54130892:

     We were at the head of a valley and below us, half a mile distant, grey and gold amid a screen of boskage, shone the dome and columns of an old house.