bosket

• bosquet

Borrowed from French bosquet, from Italian boschetto, diminutive of bosco (“wood”), from Late Latin busca, buscus or boscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (compare Old High German busk). Doublet of bouquet.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒskɪt/

bosket (plural boskets)

1. A small grove or copse of trees, a thicket.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 98:

     When he returned from a swim in the broad and deep brook beyond the bosquet, with wet hair and tingling skin, Van got the rare treat of finding his foreglimpse of live ivory accurately reproduced [...].

• Kobets