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bugle bead

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bu⋅gle

3[byoo-guhl]
–noun
1. Also called bugle bead. a tubular glass bead used for ornamenting dresses.
–adjective
2. Also, bugled. ornamented with bugles.

Origin:
1570–80; of obscure orig.
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Word Origin & History

bugle 
c.1350, 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."
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