bugle
noun /ˈbjuːɡl/
/ˈbjuːɡl/
- a musical instrument like a small trumpet, used in the army for giving signals
Topics Musicc2军号 词源Middle English: via Old French from Latin buculus, diminutive of bos ‘ox’. The early English sense was ‘wild ox’, hence the compound bugle-horn, denoting the horn of an ox used to give signals, originally in hunting.