busby
Example Sentences
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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 Literature
Magnificent purple thistles bristle against the razor wire of Bulgaria's new border fence, like gay busbies.
From BBC
They were wearing their hallmark red jackets and furry black bearskin hats known as busbies.
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
The worst coloured skins are dyed black or brown and are used for British military busbies, or caps, stoles, boas, muffs and coachmen’s capes.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.