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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
maquis /maˈkiː/

▶noun (pl. same)

1 (the Maquis) the French resistance movement during the German occupation (1940–5).
■ a member of the Maquis.

2 dense scrub vegetation consisting of hardy evergreen shrubs and small trees, characteristic of coastal regions in the Mediterranean.

– origin C19: from Fr., ‘brushwood’, from Corsican Ital. macchia.

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