Meanings
plural buisines · alternative busine
- historicalentertainmentA medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.
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.
1823, Archaeologia; Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 1551 more example
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.
1860, John Hewitt, The fourteenth century, page 310Synonyms: herald's trumpet
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.
Origin
- Latinbūcina
- Old Frenchbuisine
- Englishbuisine
Learned borrowing from Old French buisine, busine (an earlier, Middle English-era borrowing bosyne did not survive into modern English), from Latin būcina. Doublet of buccina and posaune.
More words from Old French, Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan anafil, nafil
- anafilmedieval wind instrument
- nafilmedieval wind instrument
Dutch bazuin
- bazuinmedieval wind instrument
Finnish busina
- businamedieval wind instrument
French buisine
- buisinemedieval wind instrument
Polish buisine
- buisinemedieval wind instrument
Spanish añafil
- añafilmedieval wind instrument
Cite this entry
buisine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buisine
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