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Word of the Day for Monday, June 22, 2009
copse \KOPS\, noun:
A thicket or grove of small trees.
A lit window shone from between the trees below them, then vanished
again as the car dipped over a ditch and passed through a copse.
-- Kate Bingham, Mummy's Legs
Among the mountains, hills, streams, waterfalls, and little copses, the
child rejoiced in "savouring the delights of freedom" that stimulated his
boyish dreams and reveries.
-- Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins, Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet
They sang freely in the copses and thickets round Bohain, and in the
ruins of the mediaeval castle where he played as a boy.
-- Hilary Spurling, The Unknown Matisse
Copse derives from Old French copeiz, "a thicket for cutting," from
coper, couper, "to cut." It is related to coupon, at root "the part that is cut
off."
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for copse
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