Noun: buisine
| Singular | buisine |
| Plural | buisines |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1823, Archaeologia; Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 155:]
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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. [1860, John Hewitt, The fourteenth century, page 310:]
Nouns inflected like buisine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Learned borrowing 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. See: Latin Nouns '
būcina'.
Verbs referencing "buisine"
Portuguese Nouns
buzina.