Bugle

Bugle (med. instr., Fr.: bugle; Ger.: Hiefhorn, Hifthorn; brass instr., Fr.: clairon; Ger.: Signalhorn, Bügelhorn; valved instr., Fr.: bugle; Ger.: Saxhorn, Bügelhorn), the OFr. word bugle is derived from the Lat. buculus, meaning “bullock,” via OFr. busgle; it was borrowed by the English in the 13th c., only to be borrowed back by the French in 1814. In OFr. bugle, in the sense of an instr., is an abbr. of cor bugler, the horn of a bugle or wild bullock, which served as a hunter's signal…