copse
Posted: 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.
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.