bugletn.
/ˈbjuːɡlᵻt/, U.S. /ˈbjuɡlət/ Now chiefly historical and somewhat rare.
A small bugle, having its tubing closely coiled so as to make it more compact and portable than the standard bugle. Also more fully †buglet horn. Also figurative.Sometimes used as a means of signalling in cycling clubs, esp. in the late 19th cent.
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1803 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 246 With a bugelet horn hung down by his side.
1838 Lit. Gaz. 3 Nov. 699/3 The wild bee with its buglet fine, The blackbird singing free.
1900 Cycling & Moting 17 Nov. 380/3 The Buglet, which was an indispensable adjunct to the old time club run.
1998 Early Music 26 525/1 Most of the instruments that did not sell were 19th-century brass, including a pretty buglet (a bugle close-coiled for portability) which was estimated far too highly at £500–700.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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