The busby (originally the headdress of hussars) became the correct headdress for all mounted ceremonial duties, as well as for marching band.
The tall black-brown busby displayed a crimson bag and plume and the gold-laced officers' sabretache had a crimson cloth face.
Tossing away his cigarette and tightening the chin-strap of his busby, he trotted out in front of his men.
The bullet scored its way through my hair and burst a hole on each side of my busby.
The Guards, it is stated, are to revert to the pre-war scarlet tunic and busby.
It was about the size of my busby—large enough to hold several pounds of powder.
If he had asked me to take his place upon the imperial throne I could only have nodded my busby.
