it suonare per strada (to solicit money by entertaining the public) · fi esiintyä kadulla (to solicit money by entertaining the public) · cmn 卖艺 (to solicit money by entertaining the public) · sv underhålla på gatan (to solicit money by entertaining the public) · ru играть музыку на улице (to solicit money by entertaining the public) · ga buscáil (to solicit money by entertaining the public) · cy clera (to solicit money by entertaining the public) · la aeruscō (to solicit money by entertaining the public) · es ejecutar callejeramente (to solicit money by entertaining the public) · mi whakangahau pati (to solicit money by entertaining the public) · nrf beustchi (to solicit money by entertaining the public) · es actuar ambulantemente (to solicit money by entertaining the public) · de Straßenmusik machen (to solicit money by entertaining the public)
Borrowed from French busc, from Italian busco (“splinter”).
Meanings
A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
Could see her in the bedroom from the hearth unclamping the busk of her stays. 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 8: Laestrygonians]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 149:
Her long slit sleeves, stiffe buske, puffe verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelicall. 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie:
(broadly) A corset.
Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh. 1661, John Donne, To his Mistress going to Bed:
fr busc (stiffening strip in the front of a corset) · bg банел (stiffening strip in the front of a corset) · ga righneadóir (cóirséid) (stiffening strip in the front of a corset) · fi plansetti (stiffening strip in the front of a corset)
Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards. 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 557:
From Middle English busken, from Old Norse búask, reflexive of búa (“to prepare”); compare bound for a derivation from búa's past participle and basken for a similar formation from an Old Norse reflexive.
Meanings
(Northern-England, Scotland, transitive) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.
The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright / And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight. 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC:
Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny bride. c. 1724, William Hamilton, The Braes of Yarrow 2:
(Northern-England, Scotland) To go; to direct one's course.
Ye might have busked you to Huntly-banks. c. 1550, John Skelton, Skelton Laureate against the Scottes: