chousa

Galician

an old walled chousa, zarro, or devesa

Etymology

From Old Portuguese [Term?], from Latin clausa (enclosed). Compare Portuguese chouso, chousura.

Noun

chousa f (plural chousas)

  1. enclosed woodland
  2. enclosed pastures or orchard
    • 1362, Enrique Cal Pardo (ed.), Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 172:
      en toda a chousa que Andre Deus de Ueyga tinna sarrada et marcada por marcos et chantada de vinna
      in all the enclosing that André de Deus de Veiga had closed and delimited by boundary stoned and planted with vines
  3. (fishing) a fine mesh net

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