Dictionary

busby en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbʌz.bi/ (UK, US)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Various theories; probably from the surname Busby.

Meanings

1. A fur hat, usually with a plume in the front, worn by certain members of the military or brass bands.
   • His head was shaped like a busby, a high solid arrogant rock, covered with thick moss. 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 54:
   • They were a fine lot of fellows, in their pale blue, tight-fitting jackets, jaunty busbys and white riding breeches with the double yellow stripe […] 1895, Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow:
   • […] many Khorassanis wearing huge sheepskin busbies, similar to the head-gear of the Roumanians and Tabreez Turks of Ovahjik and the Perso-Turkish border. 1887, Thomas Stevens, chapter IV, in Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. II: From Teheran to Yokohama, London: Sampson Low […] , pages 71–72:

Forms

Coordinates

bearskin (fur hat)

Relateds

shako

Translations (9)

de Kalpak (fur hat, usually with a plume) · es colbac (fur hat, usually with a plume) · cy bysbi (fur hat, usually with a plume) · cy cap blew (fur hat, usually with a plume) · it colbacco (fur hat, usually with a plume) · pl kuczma (fur hat, usually with a plume) · cs kožešinová čepice (fur hat, usually with a plume) · ca colbac (fur hat, usually with a plume) · nl kolbak (fur hat, usually with a plume)