busby
noun
a tall fur hat with a baglike ornament hanging from the top over the right side.
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busby
American
[buhz-bee]
/ ˈbʌz bi /
noun
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busbies
plural
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a tall fur hat with a baglike ornament hanging from the top over the right side.
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the bearskin hat worn by certain British guardsmen.
busby
1
British
/ ˈbʌzbɪ /
noun
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a tall fur helmet with a bag hanging from the top to the right side, worn by certain soldiers, usually hussars, as in the British Army
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(not in official usage) another name for bearskin
Busby
2
British
/ ˈbʌzbɪ /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of busby
First recorded in 1755–65; originally, a bushy wig; of obscure origin
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Passing the balcony of the Horse Guards Building where stood Mary, the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth, King George looked up from under his extinguisher of a busby and smiled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Clapping on a great, hot bearskin busby, King Edward swung onto his chestnut charger, rode off to observe his birthday by a ceremonial trooping of the color followed by booming salutes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead, he merely clapped on his head an enormous, extinguisher-like fur busby of the Welsh Guards, and walked round the corner, unescorted, from York House to St. James's proper.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sapper of grenadiers of the Imperial Guard wore a big black fur busby, a forked beard, white gaiters, a pure white cassock under a black white-cuffed jacket, crossed white bandoliers.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the same click in the brain told Adam that his father was not a great man, that he was, indeed, a very strong-willed and concentrated little man wearing a huge busby.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
"We should enjoy adolescence," Dr Busby says, "but they can't do what they enjoy doing, what their peers are enjoying doing."
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Grace's case, showing symptoms at the age of 13, is not unusual, says Dr Busby, who sees girls both younger and older than Grace at her clinics.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Sounds like the lyrics of a Buzz Busby song.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“We literally reached senators and little old ladies’ sewing circles and everyone else,” Busby recalled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
A column of shining black ants walked across a windowsill, their bottoms tilted upwards, like a line of mincing chorus girls in a Busby Berkeley musical.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
The scarlet of the massed bands of the Brigade of Guards and the bearskins of their busbies stood out boldly against this soft colour and hard white of the choir.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012
Out the portal, down the steps of the basilica marched detachments of Papal gendarmes in towering busbies.
From Time Magazine Archive
All earnest young men, perspiring in the broiling sun under immense fur busbies, the Foot Guards marched out of step and had difficulties with their bayonets while trying to execute a few simple evolutions.
From Time Magazine Archive
As two Coldstream Guards in top-heavy busbies and flaming tunics paraded back & forth on sentry-go, the people talked among themselves in the hushed tones of relatives in a hospital anteroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of these busbies are black or brown, but some affect a mixture of black and white, a piebald affair that looks very striking and peculiar.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
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