What's Busby?
Busby is the English Name for the Hungarian Army Head Grear. In
its first
Hungarian form the military busby was a cylindrical fur cap, having a
bag of colored cloth hanging from the top.
The end of this bag was
attached to the right shoulder as a defense against sword-cuts. In
Great Britain busbies are of two kinds: (a) the hussar busby,
cylindrical in shape, with a bag; this is worn by hussars and the Royal
Horse Artillery; (b) the rifle busby, a, folding cap of astrachan
(curly lambswool), in shape somewhat resembling a Glengarry but taller.
Both have straight plumes in the front of the headdress.
The word busby is also used colloquially to denote the tall
bear-and-raccoon-skin caps worn by foot-guards and fusiliers, and the
full dress feather bonnet of Highland infantry. Cylindrical busbies
were formerly worn by the artillery engineers and rifles, but these are
now obsolete in the regular army, though still worn by some territorial
and colonial troops of these arms.
Possibly the name's original sense of a busby wig came from association
with Dr Richard Busby, headmaster of Westminster School in the late
1600's; but it is also derived from buzz,
in the phrase ~ buzz wig.
So, I am sure, there will be lot of buzzing around with Busby SEO
Constest. :).
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