: a small cylindrical bead of glass or plastic used for trimming especially on women's clothing
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What is the origin of bugle?
In early English, the word bugle meant “wild ox.” The horns of oxen were made into signaling devices for soldiers and hunters, first called bugle horns. Later this was shortened to bugle.
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin bugula
Noun (2)
Middle English, buffalo, instrument made of buffalo horn, bugle, from Anglo-French, from Latin buculus, diminutive of bos head of cattle — more at cow