English Explanatory Dictionary

buisine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.

Word forms

buisine buisines busine

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old French buisine, busine (an earlier, Middle English-era borrowing bosyne did not survive into modern English), from Latin būcina. Doublet of buccina and posaune.

Synonyms

herald's trumpet
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