Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A short melody sounded upon a bugle as a signal or order.

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Examples

  • The music appeared to rise from out of the vast jungle-clad crater below me, and as the bugle-call died away, I distinctly beard the bleating of goats!

    The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

  • Suddenly, as clearly as if I were on a parade-ground, my ears caught the sound of a bugle-call.

    The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

  • I didn't see a soul as I came, but I was cheered by the sound of a bugle-call in the distance, and I was pressing ahead more boldly up towards the temple ruin when someone clicked his tongue in the shadows, and I reined up sharply.

    Fiancée 2010

  • You are become an honorary member of the republic, you are emancipated, compulsions are not for you, nor any bugle-call but “lights out.”

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • This was regarded as the bugle-call to the Liberal party for the coming battle.

    The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

  • His vague reflections were dispelled by the arrival of a bugle-call letter which demanded that he make up his mind, for his brother wrote:

    Legacy Michener, James 1987

  • I didn't see a soul as I came, but I was cheered by the sound of a bugle-call in the distance, and I was pressing ahead more boldly up towards the temple ruin when someone clicked his tongue in the shadows, and I reined up sharply.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • I didn't see a soul as I came, but I was cheered by the sound of a bugle-call in the distance, and I was pressing ahead more boldly up towards the temple ruin when someone clicked his tongue in the shadows, and I reined up sharply.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • One morning, a silvery bugle-call echoed back and forth along the pass we'd camped in.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

  • Presently, from their camp beyond the walls, came the Macedonian bugle-call, "Cavalry, march."

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

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