bugle
1- a brass wind instrument resembling a cornet and sometimes having keys or valves, used typically for sounding military signals.
- to sound a bugle.
- (of bull elks) to utter a rutting call.
- to call by or with a bugle: to bugle reveille.
Origin of bugle
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3- Also called bugle bead. a tubular glass bead used for ornamenting dresses.
- Also bu·gled. ornamented with bugles.
Origin of bugle
3Examples from the Web for bugle
Contemporary Examples of bugle
Du Maurier was one of the great names of British theatre, she regarded ‘a summons’ from him to be a ‘bugle call from Olympus.’
Peter Parker was fired from The Daily Bugle for digitally altering one of his photographs to stop a bad guy.
Historical Examples of bugle
Their bugle sang again, but Dick did not know what the tune meant.
The Rock of ChickamaugaJoseph A. Altsheler
Again came the bugle note, thin and clear, and yet again it sounded.
The Merry Adventures of Robin HoodHoward Pyle
No bugle had sounded, yet the whole camp was softly and diligently astir.
The CavalierGeorge Washington Cable
I have long wanted a place on a well-edited paper like the Bugle.
Jennie Baxter, JournalistRobert Barr
Again fortune favoured him, and the triumph belonged to the Bugle alone.
Jennie Baxter, JournalistRobert Barr
bugle
1- music a brass instrument similar to the cornet but usually without valves: used for military fanfares, signal calls, etc
- (intr) to play or sound (on) a bugle
Word Origin for bugle
bugle
2- any of several Eurasian plants of the genus Ajuga, esp A. reptans, having small blue or white flowers: family Lamiaceae (labiates)Also called: bugleweed See also ground pine
Word Origin for bugle
bugle
3- a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes for decoration
Word Origin for bugle
Word Origin and History for bugle
mid-14c., abbreviation of buglehorn "musical horn, hunting horn" (c.1300), from Old French bugle "(musical) horn," also "wild ox, buffalo," from Latin buculus "heifer, young ox," diminutive of bos "ox, cow" (see cow (n.)). Middle English also had the word in the "buffalo" sense and it survived in dialect with meaning "young bull." Modern French bugle is a 19c. borrowing from English.