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
Other Word Forms
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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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A thunderstorm threatened, the morning was muggy-hot and to wear a busby was to be almost drowned in sweat, but His Majesty's duty was clear.
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
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
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
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
Dr. France is no ordinary Everton fan, attending his first game on 4 September 1957 when Everton drew 3-3 with Manchester United's Busby Babes.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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
Now comes “Buzz Busby: Father of Washington D.C. Bluegrass,” his first biography.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
“That Buzz Busby was a frustrating, self-destructive, supremely talented figure remains beyond dispute,” write the authors, Kip Lornell and Tom Mindte.
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
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
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
The skins were exported to Prussia, to make busbies for the soldiers, while the bodies were sent to Hull market.
From Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter
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