Crossword-Solution: BUSBIES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Motley and picturesque even in their rags, one's pen utterly fails to convey a correct idea of their appearance; besides Servians, Bulgarians, and Turks, and the Greek priests who never fail of being on hand, now appear Roumanians, wearing huge sheep-skin busbies, with the long, ragged edges of the wool dangling about eyes and ears, or, in the case of a more "dudish " person, clipped around smooth at the brim, making the head-gear look like a small, round, thatched roof.

The crews display the utmost dash and skill in this form of warfare, often going out several miles ahead of their own advanced troops and seldom failing to return loaded with spoils in the shape of lancers' caps, busbies, helmets, lances, rifles, and other trophies, which they distribute as souvenirs to the crowds in the market places of the frontier towns.

Cylindrical busbies were formerly worn by the artillery engineers and rifles, but these are now obsolete in the regular army, though still worn by some territorial and colonial troops of these arms.

The military section had got down uniforms from one of the Brussels theatres,--busbies and helmets, and the gloriously comic hats of the _garde civile_,--dragoon tunics, hussar jackets, infantry shell-jackets, cavalry stable-jackets, foresters’ boots, dragoon jack-boots, stage piratical boots with wide tops to fit the thigh that drooped about the ankles,--trousers of every sort, from blue broadcloth, gold-striped, to the homely fustian,--and a rare show they made.

WHERE the trees rise like cliffs, proud and blue-tinted in the distance, Between the cliffs of the trees, on the grey- green park Rests a still line of soldiers, red motionless range of guards Smouldering with darkened busbies beneath the bay- onets' slant rain.