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busby

noun as in headdress

noun as in helmet

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Every time she ate the head off one soldier, another grew up in its place, with a green military coat and a yellow busby.

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.

Magnificent purple thistles bristle against the razor wire of Bulgaria's new border fence, like gay busbies.

From BBC

They were wearing their hallmark red jackets and furry black bearskin hats known as busbies.

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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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