busk

• These "people of the one fire" celebrated the "busk," in an 8-day ceremonial rebirth of the mind and spirit, by repairing the temple and grounds, and the cleaning of houses. —  Travel plan idea blog
• John Davidson, another venerable and influential member of the Synod, made a powerful speech, concluding with the same warning: 'Busk, busk, busk him as bonnilie as ye can, and fetche him in als fearlie as yie will, we sie him weill aneuche, we sie the horns of his mytre.' —  Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series
• The schoolmistress in those days wore what was called a busk--a flat piece of lancewood, hornbeam, or some other like tough and elastic wood, thrust into a sort of pocket or sheath in her dress, which came up almost to the chin and came down below the waist. —  Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
• This busk, with the addition of very tightly drawn lacing-strings, was supposed to give great symmetry to the figure. —  The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua
• And Valerie pinned the sweetest rosebud into her bodice, just in the middle above the stay-busk, and in the daintiest little hollow! —  Poor Relations

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