busby
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On the balcony at Buckingham Palace his perennial "shyness" was again observed; many Britons would have pledged their hearts blood that his uneasy fussing with the busby was genuine nervousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Passing the balcony of the Horse Guards Building where stood Mary, the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth, King George looked up from under his extinguisher of a busby and smiled.
From Time Magazine Archive
Clapping on a great, hot bearskin busby, King Edward swung onto his chestnut charger, rode off to observe his birthday by a ceremonial trooping of the color followed by booming salutes.
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A thunderstorm threatened, the morning was muggy-hot and to wear a busby was to be almost drowned in sweat, but His Majesty's duty was clear.
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And the same click in the brain told Adam that his father was not a great man, that he was, indeed, a very strong-willed and concentrated little man wearing a huge busby.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
The scarlet of the massed bands of the Brigade of Guards and the bearskins of their busbies stood out boldly against this soft colour and hard white of the choir.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012
Out the portal, down the steps of the basilica marched detachments of Papal gendarmes in towering busbies.
From Time Magazine Archive
As two Coldstream Guards in top-heavy busbies and flaming tunics paraded back & forth on sentry-go, the people talked among themselves in the hushed tones of relatives in a hospital anteroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
All earnest young men, perspiring in the broiling sun under immense fur busbies, the Foot Guards marched out of step and had difficulties with their bayonets while trying to execute a few simple evolutions.
From Time Magazine Archive
They wouldn’t want any clothes, and there they are with their busbies a-growing already on their heads.
From Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy by William Heysham Overend
