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busby

[buhz-bee] / ˈbʌz bi /




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Instead, he merely clapped on his head an enormous, extinguisher-like fur busby of the Welsh Guards, and walked round the corner, unescorted, from York House to St. James's proper.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

A thunderstorm threatened, the morning was muggy-hot and to wear a busby was to be almost drowned in sweat, but His Majesty's duty was clear.

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

Here was a final detachment of the Papal Army, elaborately upholstered Gendarmes in fur busbies, varnished jack boots, flashing sabres.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of these good people are wearing turbans the size of a bandbox; others wear enormous sheep-skin busbies.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas




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