busby
noun
a tall fur hat with a baglike ornament hanging from the top over the right side.
busbies
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pluralof busby.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Here was a final detachment of the Papal Army, elaborately upholstered Gendarmes in fur busbies, varnished jack boots, flashing sabres.
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
A number of tall, angular figures stemming the turbid stream in the elegant costumes of our first parents, but wearing Khorassani busbies or Beerjand turbans, makes a bizarre and striking picture.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
