Meaning of buisine | Babel Free

Definitions

A medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.

historical

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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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