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Busby   /bˈəzbi/   Listen
Busby

noun
(pl. busbies)
1.
Tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions.  Synonyms: bearskin, shako.






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"Busby" Quotes from Famous Books



... it to know that I was clad in scarlet and gold, with a black, fur-bound dohlman over one shoulder and a tall black busby on my head. I hung the Eagle of the Cincinnati about my neck and went back to ...
— The Colonel of the Red Huzzars • John Reed Scott

... she's learned a awful lot about divorce as she did n't know before. She said she could n't help being surprised over how much a divorce is like a marriage, for Busby Bell was there every night an' Judy an' the whole family is hard at work gettin' her clothes ready. But Mrs. Macy says them as suppose the real gettin' of the divorce itself is simple had ought to go an' stay at the Lupeys awhile. Why, she says the way the Lupeys is complicated ...
— Susan Clegg and a Man in the House • Anne Warner

... at Bonnybraes on the 10th. The column was reunited on the 11th at Fernyhaugh, and on the 12th marched to Busby, the march being greatly delayed by a bad drift over the Umpolosi River. Ring Kink was reached on the 13th, and Woodstock on the 14th. Thirty Boer rifles were found ...
— The Record of a Regiment of the Line • M. Jacson



Words linked to "Busby" :   lid, hat, chapeau



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