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bugle

UK/ˈbjuːɡəl/US/ˈbjuːɡəl/
nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,349 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: bugles

A bugle is a simple valveless brass horn used for military calls. Sound the bugle, a bugle call, the bugler raised his bugle.

Having no valves, it can play only the notes of one harmonic series, and every army call — reveille, the last post, charge — is built from those few notes. That limitation is why the calls are recognisable at a distance. The name comes from the Latin for a young ox.

Creator:Thomas Key · CC0

Definitions of bugle

  1. 1nounbugleA simple valveless brass horn used for military calls.B2+

    “A soldier played the bugle at dawn to wake the camp.”

bugle is an instrument.

Where it comes from

Anglo-Norman bugle means a young ox, from Latin buculus. The instrument was first made from an ox horn.

  1. Anglo-Norman

    bugle

  2. Middle English

    bugle

  3. English, today

    bugle

From Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman bugle. Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman bugle (“young ox, heifer; bugle”), from Latin būculus (“young ox, steer”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Music & Instruments

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bugle in the wild

  • Developed in Germany in the late 18th century from earlier traditional signal instruments, bugles were fitted with tone holes to produce keyed bugles around 1800.

    Flugelhorn

  • The keyed bugle was soon replaced by valved bugles after the invention of valves in the 1820s.

    Flugelhorn

  • The official military version is played by a single bugle or trumpet, although other versions of the tune may be played in other contexts (e.g., the U.S.

    Taps (bugle call)

  • Classic drum and bugle corps are musical ensembles that descended from military bugle and drum units returning from World War I and succeeding wars.

    Drum and bugle corps (classic)

  • Over time, rivalries between corps emerged and the competitive drum and bugle corps circuit evolved.

    Drum and bugle corps (classic)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.