bocage
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- noun
- /boʊˈkɑːʒ/
- The countryside is a patchwork of old earthworks and hedgerows, known locally as bocage, that protect livestock and crops from the bone-chilling Atlantic winds.
Examples
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Since the 1960s, some French politicians had a project for a new airport in the beautiful and ecologically rich bocage countryside near Nantes, more precisely at Notre Dame des Landes.
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The bocage in Normandy is famous for its beautiful, small fields surrounded by dense hedges.
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Much of the fighting took place in the bocage.
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Look, when we was in the bocage country, we was assaulted by them Tigers.
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A characteristic landscape west of Rouen, bocage is an irregular patchwork of low trees and thick, high hedges alternating with small fields or meadows and pastures.
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Walking through the bocage, we admired the neatly separated fields and the tall trees lining the paths.
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In the bocage region of western Europe, the landscape is defined by its quaint fields and lush hedgerows.
Synonyms
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Land and views outside towns and cities with fields and farms
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word bocage comes from French and from the old word bosc meaning 'wood' or 'small wood'. So a bocage is an area of countryside made of many little woods, hedges and trees, which is why the word names the hedged fields of places like Normandy.