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語源

Borrowed 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.

名詞

buisine (複数形 buisines)

1. (music, historical) A medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.

   Synonym: herald's trumpet

   Coordinate term: buccina

   • 1823, Archaeologia; Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 155:

     It was marvellously great, and shewed such joy and satisfaction that the sound and bruit of their instruments, horns, buisines, and trumpets, were heard even as far as the castle.

   • 1860, John Hewitt, The fourteenth century, page 310:

     The clarion named in the above passages appears to have been a smaller kind of trumpet. The buisine (from buccina) was also a sort of trumpet: it was of a bent form, and made of brass.

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