A bugle is a simple brass instrument like a small trumpet, used especially in the military to play signals. It has no valves and can only play a limited set of notes.
From Middle English “bugle,” meaning “wild ox” or “buffalo,” from Latin “buculus,” “young bull.” The name shifted from the animal to a horn made from its horn or associated with calling cattle.
The instrument bugle traces back to bulls and oxen—early horns were literally animal horns. A word that once pointed at a young bull now points at the sound you might use to call soldiers to wake up.
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