Pronounced: MITH-rih-day-tiz-um, noun
Notes: I ran across this word while researching a recent word, and thought the background was interesting (and it gave me a laugh)
Yesterday’s word
The word boscage is “a mass of trees or shrubs”
First usage
Our word came into English in the second half of the 1300s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the Middle English boskage, which came from the Middle French word boscage.
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