Bosquet
bosket.
a grove; thicket.
Historical Examples
Under the Witches’ Moon Nathan Gallizier
The British Expedition to the Crimea William Howard Russell
A Soldier’s Experience or A Voice from the Ranks: Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure Timothy Gowing
Rheims and the Battles for its Possession Various
Pascal’s Penses Blaise Pascal
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Edwin Emerson
Sir Jasper Carew Charles James Lever
Women of America John Rouse Larus
Paris: With Pen and Pencil David W. Bartlett
The British Expedition to the Crimea William Howard Russell
noun
a variant spelling of bosket
noun
a clump of small trees or bushes; thicket
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