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A thicket or grove.

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Usage examples (38)
  • The children hid themselves in a leafy copse.
  • Beyond the copse was a row of huddled-up cottages.
  • In the heart of the copse was a rude wooden bench, built some years before by the factor's orders.
  • Plz tu call copse!
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  • The "cops" (police) found suspicious tracks in the "copse" (a thicket or grove, also spelled "coppice").
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