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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.

bu⋅gle

1[byoo-guhl] noun, verb, -gled, -gling.
–noun
1. a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
–verb (used without object)
2. to sound a bugle.
3. (of bull elks) to utter a rutting call.
–verb (used with object)
4. to call by or with a bugle: to bugle reveille.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME bugle (horn) instrument made of an ox horn < AF, OF < L būculus bullock, young ox, equiv. to bū- var. s. of bōs ox + -culus -cle 1


bugler, noun
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bu·gle 1   (byōō'gəl)   
n.   Music
A brass wind instrument somewhat shorter than a trumpet and lacking keys or valves.
intr.v.   bu·gled, bu·gling, bu·gles
  1. Music To sound a bugle.

  2. To give forth a deep, prolonged sound similar to the bay of a hound.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin būculus, steer, diminutive of bōs, ox; see gwou- in Indo-European roots.]
bu'gler n.
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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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