Buisine

Quick meaning: Buisine is a noun meaning (music, historical) A medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• buisines

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vielle, brass, boule, chalumeau, boulle, bell.

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