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Verb
/ˈbəsəl/,
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bustles, 3rd person singular present; bustled, past participle; bustled, past tense; bustling, present participle;
  1. Move in an energetic or noisy manner
    • - people clutching clipboards bustled about
  2. Make (someone) move hurriedly in a particular direction
    • - she bustled us into the kitchen
  3. (of a place) Be full of activity
    • - the small harbor bustled with boats
    • - the bustling little town
Noun
  1. A pad or frame worn under a skirt and puffing it out behind

  1. a rapid active commotion
  2. move or cause to move energetically or busily; "The cheerleaders bustled about excitingly before their performance"
  3. a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt
  4. (bustling) full of energetic and noisy activity; "a bustling city"
  5. A bustle is a type of framework used to expand the fullness or support the drapery of the back of a woman's dress, occurring predominantly in the mid- to late 1800s. Bustles were worn under the skirt in the back, just below the waist, to keep the skirt from dragging. ...
  6. The Native American bustle is a traditional part of a man's regalia worn during a dance exhibition or wachipi (pow wow) and originates from the Plains region of the United States. ...
  7. An excited activity; a stir; A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine; A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt; To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about)
  8. Exaggerated gathering of fabric, or a gathering of fabric caught up with detail, at the back of the gown.
  9. Ideal for the practical bride; this long train can will flow behind you during the ceremony, but can be gently gathered to the back of your dress to allow you to walk or dance with ease.
  10. (Tournoure) An artificial shape, made of wired frames or stuffed forms that were attached to the waist to enlarge the shape of the female's posterior.
  11. Pad or frame worn below waist at the back to extend the skirt. Worn in the late 19th century.
  12. slang for the framework protruding from the back side of the TURRET on a TANK that's used to stow extra equipment and some gear for the CREW; serves as a shared backpack for TANKERs. See SPACED ARMOR.
  13. A hydrodynamic shape attached to the chine that increases the area available for buoyancy.
  14. Pad or frame worn at base of the back, used to drape the skirt over to distend skirts. Also known as dress improvers and often associated with the higher classes of the 17th and 18th centuries.
  15. A frame extending rearward from over the buttocks over which the dress is draped, such as this one.
  16. A pad stuffed with cotton or feathers, worn by ladies for the double purpose of giving a greater prominence to the hips, and setting off the smallness of the waist.
  17. A fashion that dates back to the victorian period in which the back of a skirt or dress just below the waist is accentuated with additional fabric that is gath ered and is stationary.
  18. pad or arrangement of steel springs worn under a skirt to create a projecting derriere, popular in various forms in the latter half of the ninteenth century (1)
  19. Bustles are a pulling up of fabric at the back of a dress where the bodice meets the skirt. Many trains may be bustled, pulled up, so they are out of the way at the reception.
  20. Rigidly reduced hoops, meant only to support the behind of a skirt. Used between 1870 and 1890. Also known as cul de Paris or "Paris arse".
  21. Leaf type. See Bustleback.