bugle

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From Anglo-Norman, from Old French, from Latin buculus ("young bull; ox; steer").

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Wikipedia bugle (plural bugles)

  1. (music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
  2. the often cultivated plant Lamiaceae
  3. anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end
  4. a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
    • 1925, P. G. Wodehouse , Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 207.
      With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.

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music: simple brass instrument
plant of the genus Lamiaceae
anything shaped like a bugle

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bugle (third-person singular simple present bugles, present participle bugling, simple past and past participle bugled)

  1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle

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to emulate bugle

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