单词 | bocage |
释义 | bocagen. 1. Woodland: a by-form of boscage n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land wold786 frith?826 woodland869 woodc897 rough1332 foresta1375 firth?a1400 weald1544 bocage1644 parkland1649 bush1780 sylvanry1821 forestry1823 belting1844 rukh1856 treescape1885 bush1912 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > thicket, brake, or brush shaw755 thicketa1000 thyvela1000 greavec1050 wood-shawc1275 boscagec1400 greenwood shawc1405 thickc1430 brakec1440 shaw of wood1462 queach1486 bush1523 tuft1555 bushment1587 bocage1644 cripple1675 virgult1736 bluffc1752 thick-set1766 sylvagea1774 thicket-maze1813 bosk1815 woodlet1821 rush1822 puckerbrush1867 1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 68 Whole fields, meadows, bocages. 1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xii. 147 The men of the bocage and the men of the plain. 2. The representation of silvan scenery in ceramics. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [noun] > painting > specific designs shoulder linec1175 willow pattern1829 blue willow1831 kylin1857 oeil-de-perdrix1865 Broseley dragon1878 prunus1878 hawthorn pattern1896 bocage1902 shishi1970 1902 W. Burton Hist. & Descr. Eng. Porcelain v. 49 Little figures were produced with wreaths of flowers and foliage, and, finally, the fully developed boscage, or bocage pieces. 1902 W. Burton Hist. & Descr. Eng. Porcelain vii. 73 Little figures on stands, with bocages, and nozzles for candlesticks, were also produced at Bow. 1950 Antiquity 24 111 The 19th century ushers in John Walton, with his well-known ‘bocage’, which has been described as ‘the art of the pastry-cook’. 1961 Connoisseur New Guide to Antique Eng. Pottery, Porcelain & Glass 66 Ralph Salt of Hanley specialised in the rather more costly bocage pieces, sporting dogs, and sheep with hand-raised wool. 1961 Times 8 Apr. 11/6 The leafy arbour of bocage groups associated with exquisite porcelain. Draft additions December 2022 Pastureland divided into small fields by banks, ditches, and hedges, interspersed with groves of trees.Originally used with reference to French landscapes; now also applied to similar terrain in other areas of northern Europe. [ < Bocage, the name of a region or canton in Normandy, France (1732); the place name is found in English contexts from the late 18th cent.] ΘΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > other types of pasture fritha1552 bruery1573 agistment1598 mountain1780 zuur-veldt1785 boosey pasture1794 rough grazing1802 outrun1870 1863 G. T. Lowth Wanderer West. France xi. 145 Some French writers, in describing the Bocage, include in it all the country of La Vendée, calling it all ‘a Bocage country’, because it is subdivided throughout into fields by hedges, with many trees growing in these divisions. 1942 H. C. Darby et al. France (Naval Intelligence Div., U.K.) I. i. 16 Much of the area [sc. the Sarthe Valley]..remains..a bocage of green fields, surrounded by wooded hedges and interspersed with thickets. 1966 Geogr. Zeitschr. 54 106 Thorn..prevails. It remains the most significant element of the English bocage and the country's agrarian morphology still continues to be expressed to a great extent in terms of it. 2020 Times (Nexis) 11 Apr. As you climb out of Wootton Fitzpaine through the west Dorset bocage you come to 12-acre Brigs Farm. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2022). < n.1644 |
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