| 释义 |
ˈkey-ˌbugle
A bugle fitted with keys to increase the number of its sounds.
(Invented by James Halliday about 1815, and by him named the Kent Bugle.)
1836–9Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 249/1 The loud notes of a key-bugle broke the monotonous stillness of the street. 1884J. Colborne Hicks Pasha viii. 86 Each battalion marched out to the inharmonious braying of their key-bugles. |