单词 | buglet horn |
释义 | > as lemmasbuglet horn 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > bugle buglea1375 buglet1803 key bugle1818 keyed bugle1818 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. < as lemmas |
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