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Postby eberntson » Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:52 pm

n.
A thicket of small trees or shrubs; a coppice.

From the french, to cut, and Latin root which means to cut-off. Perhaps it's related to corpse.

It appears in Jane Austin's book Pride & Prejudice a couple times.
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Postby Slava » Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:20 pm

Treated here, though credited to another:

http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1828
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