bugle
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- //ˈbjuːɡəl//
A horn used by hunters.
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A horn used by hunters.
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A simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
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The sound of something that bugles.
the bugle of an elk
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A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
Then tooke that squire an horne of bugle small, Which hong adowne his side in twisted gold And tassels gay.
The tongue so rough, that were it licks, it fetches blood. The Greeks used not these, nor Bugles in Physick, not having tried their vertue; though Indian-woods are full of such, yet parts of them are of more efficacy in medicine, (it is thought) than any part of ordinary Oxen.
All in the merry strand, With the ran, ran tan, And the tippy, tippy tran, And away with the royal bow! wow! wow! And the riddle diddle do, And the bugle's horn, For into the woods we'll run, brave boys, And into the woods we'll run.
a hunting horn, origin. made of the horn of a "bugle" or wild ox
Etimologia
Etymology tree Anglo-Norman buglebor. Middle English bugle English bugle Inherited from Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman bugle (“young ox, heifer; bugle”), from Latin būculus (“young ox, steer”).
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To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle.
“It was as though the very constellations knew our impending sorrow,” he bugled, his head raised to the ceiling, his voice full-throated.
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A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim.
How well so ever I fancied my lectures against pride had conquered the vanity of my daughters; yet I still found them secretly attached to all their former finery: they still loved laces, ribbands, bugles and catgut […]
With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.
Billionaires wear hoodies and sneakers, not taffeta and bugle beads.
Etimologia
From Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”), probably from Latin būculus.
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Bugle eyeballs.
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A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover Ajuga reptans, and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
Etimologia
From Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.
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