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What (who) is bugle - definition
TYPE OF BRASS INSTRUMENT
Bugler; Keyed Bugle; Bugle (instrument); Bugle scale; Bugleret; Bugle major; Bugles; Buggle
![Roman bugle, 4th century. Added to the [[British Museum]] in 1904, this late Roman bugle is bent completely round upon itself to form a coil between the mouthpiece and the bell (broken off). Found at [[Mont Ventoux]], France.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1911 EB Roman Bugle.png?width=200 "Roman bugle, 4th century. Added to the [[British Museum]] in 1904, this late Roman bugle is bent completely round upon itself to form a coil between the mouthpiece and the bell (broken off). Found at [[Mont Ventoux]], France.")
![Awareness of trumpet experiments reached a 1405 illustrator in France, who painted a [[grotesque]] playing a trumpet bent into a U.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Grotesque with bent trumpet, Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre, 1361-1425, fol. 272r.jpg?width=200 "Awareness of trumpet experiments reached a 1405 illustrator in France, who painted a [[grotesque]] playing a trumpet bent into a U.")
![Virdung illustrated (1511 A.D.) bent trumpets including ''felttrumet'' (field trumpet) and ''busaun'' ([[sackbut]]).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Musica getutscht und außgezogen 021.jpg?width=200 "Virdung illustrated (1511 A.D.) bent trumpets including ''felttrumet'' (field trumpet) and ''busaun'' ([[sackbut]]).")
![Clarion]] trumpet, [[buisine]] trumpet, 2 [[shawm]]s. Painted in France between 1412 and 1416. (upper left corner). The ''clarion'' matches the ''felttrumet'' in Virdung's 1511 illustrations of musical instruments.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frères Limbourg - Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry - mois de mai - Google Art Project cropped.jpg?width=200 "Clarion]] trumpet, [[buisine]] trumpet, 2 [[shawm]]s. Painted in France between 1412 and 1416. (upper left corner). The ''clarion'' matches the ''felttrumet'' in Virdung's 1511 illustrations of musical instruments.")
![[[Mehterhâne]], Ottoman miniature circa 1568. The musicians play two [[zurna]], two spiral trumpets (''boru''), a cylinder drum ''[[davul]]'' and a pair of kettle drums (''nakkare''). In 1529, the “Turkish field clamor” reached Vienna for the first time.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mehter detail Hazine 1339 folio 103b.jpg?width=200 "[[Mehterhâne]], Ottoman miniature circa 1568. The musicians play two [[zurna]], two spiral trumpets (''boru''), a cylinder drum ''[[davul]]'' and a pair of kettle drums (''nakkare''). In 1529, the “Turkish field clamor” reached Vienna for the first time.")
![Chinese [[Eighth Route Army]] bugler during World War II. Photograph by [[Sha Fei]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eighth Route Army bugler.jpg?width=200 "Chinese [[Eighth Route Army]] bugler during World War II. Photograph by [[Sha Fei]].")
![American poster during the [[Second World War]] depicting a bugler from the [[Ethiopian National Defence Force Band]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/THIS MAN IS YOUR FRIEND. ETHIOPIAN - NARA - 515794.jpg?width=200 "American poster during the [[Second World War]] depicting a bugler from the [[Ethiopian National Defence Force Band]]")
bugle
n.
1.
Hunting-horn, bugle-horn.
2.
(Mil.) Call-bugle, key-bugle.
3.
Elongated bead, drop-ornament.
Bugle
·adj Jet black.
II. Bugle ·noun A horn used by hunters.
III. Bugle ·noun A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
IV. Bugle ·noun An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
V. Bugle ·noun A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.
VI. Bugle ·noun A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet;
- called also the Kent bugle.
bugle
bugle1
¦ noun (also bugle-horn) a brass instrument like a small trumpet, traditionally used for military signals.
¦ verb sound a bugle.
Derivatives
bugler noun
Origin
ME (in the sense 'wild ox'): via OFr. from L. buculus, dimin. of bos 'ox'; hence bugle-horn, denoting the horn of an ox used to give signals.
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bugle2
(N. Amer. also bugleweed)
¦ noun a creeping plant with blue flowers on upright stems. [Ajuga reptans and other species.]
Origin
ME: from late L. bugula.
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bugle3
¦ noun an ornamental tube-shaped bead on clothing.
Origin
C16: of unknown origin.
Wikipedia
Bugle
The bugle is a simple signaling brass instrument with a wide conical bore. It normally has no valves or other pitch-altering devices, and is thus limited to its natural harmonic notes, and pitch is controlled entirely by varying the embouchure.
Examples of use of bugle
1. The silver and black bugle–beaded shift (130) is very short but reassuringly heavy, so hangs well, while a black flapper dress with chiffon skirt and bugle beaded bodice (120) is lovely.
2. He suggests hardy varieties such as thyme, bugle and creeping Jenny.
3. As a bugle sounded, they were carried past family and friends on the runway.
4. His sculptures, like the movies, offer horses at full gallop, drama, ceaseless action, bugle calls, grunts and screams.
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