bugle

noun

a brass instrument like a trumpet but smaller, and usually without keys or valves: used chiefly for military calls and signals

intransitive verb, transitive verb bugled, bugling

to call or signal by or as by blowing a bugle

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noun

a long, tubular glass or plastic bead for trimming dresses, etc.

adjective

trimmed with bugles

noun

any of a genus (Ajuga) of plants of the mint family, having spikes of white, pink, or blue flowers and often used for ground cover; ajuga

See bugle in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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