(n.) A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.
(n.) A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Queen also comes under fire: by tolerating the British guards' continued use of bearskin hats, she has proven herself "indifferent to barbarism".
(2) I am not ashamed to admit I am one of those hem-touchers, fascinated to meet the man who changed the face of modern opera with his centenary Ring cycle at Bayreuth in 1976, when he infuriated traditionalists by replacing Wagnerian horns and bearskins with the trappings of 19th-century plutocracy.
(3) Dressed in a bear costume and bearing a motto "Bearskins look better on bears", she didn't seem to mind being ignored.
(4) The prince – a rare British royal venturing into the heart of francophone, would-be separatist Quebec – received a formal welcome and inspection parade outside the city hall by the bearskin-helmeted members of the locally recruited 22nd regiment, known as "Les Van Doos".
Busby
Definition:
(n.) A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Matt Busby used to say to us that if we were six points off the lead at Christmas we would win the league.
(2) Those who fail when managing United (or City) perhaps do so because, unlike Ferguson – and before him Matt Busby – they lack a visceral conceptual understanding that Manchester United is not only about football and it is not really of Manchester.
(3) Green Audit is an environmental consultancy and research organisation founded by Busby.
(4) The tests are provided by Busby Laboratories and promoted through a body called the Christopher Busby Foundation for the Children of Fukushima (CBFCF).
(5) This game fell the day after the 100th anniversary of Sir Matt Busby's birth, which inspired a mosaic tribute at the United end of the ground.
(6) British football can be proud of the United team who gave their all to give Matt Busby the cup he cherishes above all else,” the newspaper proclaimed.
(7) Though a controversial figure, Busby has been championed by the anti-nuclear movement and some environmentalists.
(8) In the 60s, Sir Matt Busby ran Manchester United with a laissez-faire policy, which allowed geniuses such as George Best to flourish.
(9) Throughout their most notable periods of success under both Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson, United generally played with great width on both flanks, and based their play around quick diagonal passes out wide and plenty of crosses.
(10) When asked what his involvement with the foundation is, Busby said: "It's got nothing to do with me.
(11) The names Matt Busby, Bob Paisley, Alex Ferguson and Brian Clough were put to the Italian in the context that he may soon be joining their illustrious company, but there has never been a European Cup-winning interim first-team coach.
(12) The same values characterised the mining towns and villages that produced Jock Stein, Bill Shankly and Sir Matt Busby.
(13) Another coeliac, Katherine Busby, 35, from York, was diagnosed 12 years ago.
(14) The Sisterhood began eleven years ago under the leadership of Ms. Daphne Busby.
(15) And if Busby indulged Best to a fault, Ferguson turned a blind eye to the excesses of his own talisman, Eric Cantona.
(16) In 2001 Ferguson visited Gérard Houllier in hospital after the Frenchman underwent heart surgery and it wasn’t unknown for the former Liverpool player Matt Busby to share a team coach with his fellow manager Bill Shankly after the pair formed a mutual Scottish admiration society in the sixties.
(17) Gerald Busby, a 72-year-old composer, has lived at the Chelsea since 1977.
(18) On a giant banner outside the ground, the figures of five triumphant United players overlooked the statue of another legendary Old Trafford manager, Sir Matt Busby.
(19) "CCS will need 50% more coal for the same generation and it will add 70% to the costs," said independent energy analyst John Busby.
(20) 27 March 1994 Patrick Barclay looks at the strengths and weaknesses of Alex Ferguson's managerial style and says Manchester United's governor needs to acquire some of the late Sir Matt Busby's diplomacy A third of last season had passed, with United no higher than fifth because they still scored at too modest a rate, when Ferguson was tipped off by a French friend that Eric Cantona wanted to leave Leeds.