bugler
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- noun
- /ˈbʌɡlər/
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cornetista
- At sunrise, the bugler sounded the call to wake the soldiers.
- the bugler plays taps
- the bugler plays
- the bugler's call
You know, when the the bugler and the bagpipes play, I was happy to be outside.
- You know, when the the bugler and the bagpipes play, I was happy to be outside.
Examples
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After the bugler's last note concludes, Lieutenant Charlier steps up to face the platoon.
Fiction book (1998) -
Why don't you have your bugler blow the charge too?
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- Bugler, sound the advance.
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- Bugler, raise those colors to full staff.
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If you don't mind, we'd like to have our bugler play "Taps."
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The bugler plays taps.
Fiction book (1991) -
The bugler blows "Le Caid" as the French tricolor is hoisted up the flagpole.
Fiction book (1998) -
Buglers and drummers sounded a fanfare to herald the Master's approach.
Fiction book (1999) -
Butterfield then asked the brigade bugler, Oliver W. Norton, to play the notes and, after listening, lengthened and shortened them while keeping his original melody.
Blog text (27) -
But the armed forces don't have enough real buglers to cover the thousands of veterans' funerals each year, and playing a recording of Taps on a portable stereo is felt to lack dignity.
Fiction book (2002)
Compounds
A plant with bright red tube-shaped flowers in small clusters at the top of stems
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bugler comes from bugle (a small horn) and -er meaning 'one who'. Bugle was a name for a horn made from an ox or bull, so a bugler is simply 'someone who plays the horn' at a ceremony or in the army.