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Bugle call   /bjˈugəl kɔl/   Listen
Bugle call

noun
1.
A signal broadcast by the sound of a bugle.





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"Bugle call" Quotes from Famous Books



... Russians, astounded, massed in a square. Why? I suppose that, turned on the left, attacked in the center, they thought themselves surrounded, and took this strange formation. At this moment a most inopportune bugle call was sounded by order of Major De M—— commanding temporarily a battalion of foot chasseurs. This officer had perceived the Russian cavalry in motion and believed that its object was to charge us, while, on the contrary ...
— Battle Studies • Colonel Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq
... slapped slowly against her thighs. The odour of hair, cheap scent, necks, bosoms and arms was overpowering, and to Kate's sense of modesty there was something revolting in this loud display of body. A bugle call was soon sounded in the orchestra, and this was the signal for much noise and bustle. The conspirators rushed off the stage, threw aside their cloaks, and immediately after the soft curling strains of the waltz were heard; then the bugle was sounded again, ...
— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore
... richly-robed priest, holding a silver bugle to his lips, stood out on the altar steps. The shrill bugle call for "silence" rang through the great building, and a tomb-like hush fell upon ...
— The Mark of the Beast • Sidney Watson


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