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copse
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synonyms: coppice, spinney ???
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Definition:A thicket of small trees or shrubs.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
image: by Henri Matisse, Copse of the Banks of the Garonne
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The line of men, spaced ten yards apart so that if a shell came it would only hit a few of them at one time, wound through a copse of bare, artillery-marked beeches.
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.621 (1948)
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I could hear titmice in the copse to the left, and a flock of jays calling out to each other as they fed, further on.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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we went into a copse at some distance, where I with my knife, and he with a sharp flint, fastened very artificially after their manner, to a wooden handle, cut down several oak wattles, about the thickness of a walking-staff, and some larger pieces.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Beyond, two copses of trees moaned and swung in a rising wind.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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The National Gallery of Ireland stands near the center of Dublin, directly across from the large green expanse of Merrion Square, with its paved walkways, flowerbeds, and copses of neatly pruned trees.
Jonathan Harr. The Lost Painting, p.143 (2006)
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"If you are looking for my master, ma'am, he is walking towards the little copse."
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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The place fixed on for the stand-shooting was not far above a stream in a little aspen copse. On reaching the copse, Levin got out of the trap and led Oblonsky to a corner of a mossy, swampy glade, already quite free from snow.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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