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hustle (one's) bustle

To increase one's pace or sense of urgency; to hurry up; to get moving quickly. We'd better hustle our bustle if we want to get to the movie theater on time!

bustle about

1. To work on a task vigorously. Because her relatives are coming to visit, Annabelle is bustling about, cleaning the whole house and setting up all the guest rooms.

2. To quickly move around some space or area while trying to complete a task. In this usage, the location is stated after "about." Because her relatives are coming to visit, Annabelle is bustling about the living room, putting all of the kids' toys away.

bustle around

To move quickly while trying to complete a task. Because her relatives are coming to visit, Annabelle is bustling around, cleaning the whole house and setting up all the guest rooms.

bustle off

1. To leave a place hastily. A: "I didn't see Alice this morning. B: "Oh, she bustled off because she was running late."

2. To send someone somewhere. In this usage, a noun can be used between "bustle" and "off." Before I left for the airport, I bustled my daughter off to school.

hustle and bustle

Busy and frenetic activity or excitement. I love living among the hustle and bustle of the city. I avoid the hustle and bustle of malls and shopping centers whenever I can.

bustle about doing something

to go about doing something busily and energetically. Greg bustled about all day, doing the chores. Lily bustled about, getting dinner ready.

bustle about some place

to move about some place very busily, or as if busy. They were all bustling about the kitchen, getting the feast ready. Veronica was bustling about outside, cleaning up the yard.

bustle around

to move about very busily. The people were bustling around, trying to get things ready for the picnic. I wish you would stop bustling around.

bustle off

to leave in haste. Well, I have to bustle off or I'll miss my flight. I hate to bustle off so soon.

bustle someone off

to help someone leave; to send someone out or away. The cops bustled the crook off. They bustled off the three men who were fighting.

hustle and bustle

Fig. confusion and business. I can't stand the hustle and bustle of big cities. There is a lot of hustle and bustle in this office at the end of the fiscal year.

ˌhustle and ˈbustle

busy and excited activity: I can’t concentrate on my work with all this hustle and bustle going on around me. ♢ I’ve always loved the hustle and bustle of big cities.

See also: and, bustle, hustle

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The bustles worn by Darryl Hill are the "tried and true" type of fancy dance bustle.

Men's Fancy

The final addition was the bustle that made fashionable young fillies look like pantomime horses and gave a new meaning to the question: "Does my bum look big in this?

The Diary

The original bustles from the Omaha Grass Dance Societies were definitely not eagle bustles in the sense of bustles today.

(Saskatchewan Indian Cultural) Centre wants to curb the use of feathers in regalia

The second, fourth and fifth bustles are round conical bustles similar to the more traditional style, popular at the turn of the 19th century after feather belts and before larger, flatter swing bustles.

Black Hills Powwow 2015

These bustles could be abused with little or no damage.

Parfleche bustle

In this dance, the dancer dons a real horsetail that is held at the waist by a belt where they would ordinarily wear their bustle.

Horsetail dance: Julyamsh 2013

It is the recollection of this writer that there are two dancers (Albert White Hat Jr and Steve Red Eagle) who have been wearing these types of round bustles before they were popular.

Men's traditional bustles: 2012 Prairie Island, Minnesota

Neck bustles were a popular item in the late 1800s and have recently gained popularity after being absent for so long.

Men's traditional: Denver March 2011

Round bustle is more geographically compact as it has not spread as rapidly to the rest of the powwow community as Chicken dance has become a very popular dance style at contest powwows throughout the United States and Canada.

Round bustles

One bustle in particular grabbed my full attention; a simply designed and elegantly crafted Arapaho bustle of sage grouse feathers.

Arapahoe style sage grouse bustle

Lightning Paul from the Yakima tribe said that his grandfather told him the three bustles represent the three cycles of life-the heart, the body, and the soul.

Round Bustle: Pendleton roundup 2010: Round Bustle Dance is an old dance style that originated in the plateau area with such tribes as the Yakima and Warm Springs Confederated Tribes

In the past the author has owned bustles that had to go thorough elaborate procedures to put them together to dance.

Contemporary Northern traditional bustle construction

While the smaller more traditional round bustles are still popular with some of the more traditional dancers, the larger bustles have become an adopted part of the contemporary form of Northern Traditional dance.

Contemporary Northern Traditional bustles

Fancy arm bustles can be made in a number of ways and with different design variations.

Fancy dancer arm bustles;

His arm bustles are a great example of creativity with a beaded rosette and cut fabric that is arranged into a geometric shape surrounded by dyed hackles.

Powwow: fancy dancers at Copan Delaware

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