Bocage is a Norman word that comes from the Old Norman boscage (Anglo-Norman boscage, Old French boschage), from the Old French root bosc ("wood") > Modern French bois ("wood") cf. Medieval Latin boscus (first mentioned in 704 AD). The Norman place names retain it as Bosc-, -bosc, Bosc-, pronounced traditionally or . The suffix -age means "a general thing". The boscage form was used in English for  leafy decoration such as is found on eighteenth-century porcelain; now this usually called "bocage"  . Similar words occur in Scandinavian (cf. Swedish buskage) and other Germanic languages (cf. Dutch bos, boshaag); the original root is thought to be the Proto-Germanic *bŏsk-. The boscage form seems to have developed its meaning under the influence of eighteenth-century romanticism.
Bocage is a Norman word that comes from the Old Norman boscage (Anglo-Norman boscage, Old French boschage), from the Old French root bosc ("wood") > Modern French bois ("wood") cf. Medieval Latin boscus (first mentioned in 704 AD). The Norman place names retain it as Bosc-, -bosc, Bosc-, pronounced traditionally or . The suffix -age means "a general thing". The boscage form was used in English for "growing trees or shrubs; a thicket, grove; woody undergrowth""boscage | boskage, n.". OED Online. March 2021. Oxford University Press. URL (accessed March 02, 2021) and to refer to decorative design imitating branches and foliage or leafy decoration such as is found on eighteenth-century porcelain; since early twentieth century this usually called "bocage" ."bocage, n.". OED Online. March 2021. Oxford University Press. URL (accessed March 02, 2021) . Similar words occur in Scandinavian (cf. Swedish buskage) and other Germanic languages (cf. Dutch bos, boshaag); the original root is thought to be the Proto-Germanic *bŏsk-. The boscage form seems to have developed its meaning under the influence of eighteenth-century romanticism.
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"growing trees or shrubs; a thicket, grove; woody undergrowth""boscage | boskage, n.". OED Online. March 2021. Oxford University Press. URL (accessed March 02, 2021) and to refer to decorative design imitating branches and foliage or
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."bocage, n.". OED Online. March 2021. Oxford University Press. URL (accessed March 02, 2021)