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boots and saddles

a cavalry bugle call used as the first signal for mounted drill or other mounted formation

Etymology: ? confusion of Fr boute-selle!, lit., put saddle!

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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