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busby

[buhz-bee] / ˈbʌz bi /




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Passing the balcony of the Horse Guards Building where stood Mary, the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth, King George looked up from under his extinguisher of a busby and smiled.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the balcony at Buckingham Palace his perennial "shyness" was again observed; many Britons would have pledged their hearts blood that his uneasy fussing with the busby was genuine nervousness.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sapper of grenadiers of the Imperial Guard wore a big black fur busby, a forked beard, white gaiters, a pure white cassock under a black white-cuffed jacket, crossed white bandoliers.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the Chevrolet exhibit stood a tall young man in the red costume and black busby of the Scots Guards.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the same click in the brain told Adam that his father was not a great man, that he was, indeed, a very strong-willed and concentrated little man wearing a huge busby.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

The scarlet of the massed bands of the Brigade of Guards and the bearskins of their busbies stood out boldly against this soft colour and hard white of the choir.

From The Guardian Jul. 27, 2012

As two Coldstream Guards in top-heavy busbies and flaming tunics paraded back & forth on sentry-go, the people talked among themselves in the hushed tones of relatives in a hospital anteroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

All earnest young men, perspiring in the broiling sun under immense fur busbies, the Foot Guards marched out of step and had difficulties with their bayonets while trying to execute a few simple evolutions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out the portal, down the steps of the basilica marched detachments of Papal gendarmes in towering busbies.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the side the light from the hut struck upon the heads of two beautiful horses, and upon the heavy red-toupeed busbies of the hussars who stood at their heads.

From Uncle Bernac A Memory of the Empire by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle




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