‖ bocage
[mod.F. bocage (bɔkaʒ) wood:—OF. boscage.]
1. Woodland: a by-form of boscage.
| 1644 Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 68 Whole fields, meadows, bocages. 1869 Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xii. 147 The men of the bocage and the men of the plain. |
2. The representation of silvan scenery in ceramics. Also attrib.
| 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. Ibid. vii. 73 Little figures on stands, with bocages, and nozzles for candlesticks, were also produced at Bow. 1950 Antiquity XXIV. 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. Pott., Porc. & 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. |