Bocage
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Bocage or Boscage is a French word referring to a terrain of mixed woodland and pasture, with tortuous side-roads and lanes bounded on both sides by banks surmounted with high thick hedgerows limiting visibility. It acquired a particular significance when applied to the countryside of Normandy during the Battle of Normandy making fighting and forward progress against entrenched opposition extremely difficult. American soldiers also called these hedgerows.
Bocage is also a type of rubble-work as well as a 19th-century slang word for female pubic hair.
