busby
noun
a tall fur hat with a baglike ornament hanging from the top over the right side.
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
Example Sentences
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By the Chevrolet exhibit stood a tall young man in the red costume and black busby of the Scots Guards.
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
On the balcony at Buckingham Palace his perennial "shyness" was again observed; many Britons would have pledged their hearts blood that his uneasy fussing with the busby was genuine nervousness.
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
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
With these landmark records, Busby also introduced new citified subject matter to bluegrass.
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
Here was a final detachment of the Papal Army, elaborately upholstered Gendarmes in fur busbies, varnished jack boots, flashing sabres.
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
Some of these good people are wearing turbans the size of a bandbox; others wear enormous sheep-skin busbies.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
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