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bosk

[ bosk ]

noun

  1. a small wood or thicket, especially of bushes.


bosk

/ bɒsk /

noun

  1. literary.
    a small wood of bushes and small trees
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bosk1

1250–1300; Middle English boske, variant of busk ( e ) < Old Norse buskr bush 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bosk1

C13: variant of busk bush 1
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Example Sentences

We were on our way to Versailles to see how things were coming along at the bosk.

Her eyes were deer-like—not those of a startled fawn, but like a doe's who stands gazing at a perfect park, whose bosks she takes to be real forests.

What leaps in the bosk but a satyr?

Some one or something was moving in the bosk.

Great bosks of ferns grew beside, and here and there a bush burning with autumn color.

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