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Word of the Day for Monday, June 22, 2009copse \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. 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. They sang freely in the copses and thickets round Bohain, and in the ruins of the mediaeval castle where he played as a boy. 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." | |||||||||
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