busby
Example Sentences
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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
The regulation scarlet facings and helmet of the Royal Artillery had been substituted for the white facings and busby previously worn.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
