Definition of "bustles" [bustles]

• Plural form of bustle. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bustle. (verb)

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• "Inside, Lizzy bustles about the kitchen in a homemade tie-dyed apron, setting the dinner table in the sparsely furnished but tidy front room, the walls of which bear dozens of family photographs and a large painting of Jesus."
• "Now British people are doing it too – mooning around castles and manors, yearning for bustles, butlers and the "olden days"."
• "It shakes me, seeing her like that, and I ask if anything is bothering her, but she claims not, and bustles about, lighting the stove and warming the chicken fat and the bread."