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单词 bocage
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bocagen.

Brit. /bɒˈkɑːʒ/, /bəˈkɑːʒ/, U.S. /boʊˈkɑʒ/
Etymology: modern French bocage /bɔkaʒ/ wood < Old French boscage.
1. Woodland: a by-form of boscage n.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land
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firth?a1400
weald1544
bocage1644
parkland1649
bush1780
sylvanry1821
forestry1823
belting1844
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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
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thyvela1000
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wood-shawc1275
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bush1523
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bocage1644
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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.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [noun] > painting > specific designs
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willow pattern1829
blue willow1831
kylin1857
oeil-de-perdrix1865
Broseley dragon1878
prunus1878
hawthorn pattern1896
bocage1902
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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.]
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > other types of pasture
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mountain1780
zuur-veldt1785
boosey pasture1794
rough grazing1802
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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).
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