bugle
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gəl noun
1.
a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
verb (used with object)
4.
to call by or with a bugle: to bugle reveille.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English bugle (horn) instrument made of an ox horn < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin būculus bullock, young ox, equivalent to bū- variant stem of bōs ox + -culus -cle1
1250–1300; Middle English bugle (horn) instrument made of an ox horn < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin būculus bullock, young ox, equivalent to bū- variant stem of bōs ox + -culus -cle1
Related forms
bu·gler, noun
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noun
Origin:
1225–75; Middle English < Old French < Medieval Latin bugula a kind of plant
1225–75; Middle English < Old French < Medieval Latin bugula a kind of plant
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bugle1 (ˈbjuːɡəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | music a brass instrument similar to the cornet but usually without valves: used for military fanfares, signal calls, etc |
| —vb | |
| 2. | (intr) to play or sound (on) a bugle |
| [C14: short for bugle horn ox horn (musical instrument), from Old French bugle, from Latin būculus young bullock, from bōs ox] | |
| 'bugler1 | |
| —n | |
| bugle2 (ˈbjuːɡəl) | |
| —n | |
| See also ground pine Also called: bugleweed any of several Eurasian plants of the genus Ajuga, esp A. reptans, having small blue or white flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates) | |
| [C13: from Late Latin bugula, of uncertain origin] | |
| bugle3 (ˈbjuːɡəl) | |
| —n | |
| a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes for decoration | |
| [C16: of unknown origin] | |
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Word Origin & History
bugle
mid-14c., abbreviation of buglehorn "drinking horn, hunting horn" (c.1300), from O.Fr. bugle "wild ox, buffalo," from L. buculus "heifer, young ox," dim. of bos "ox, cow" (see cow).
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Example sentences
The bugle calls can still be heard wafting on the air.
The bugle of an endangered whooping crane echoes across the far reaches of the marsh.
Those bugle calls have been included where appropriate.
She sets out a long table with antique silver bowls filled with color-coded candies and bugle beads and vintage fabrics.
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