Home › Words › V › virolevirolevirole · noun — A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom French virole (“ferrule”). See ferrule.nounA ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.e.g.“[…] except when he has a hood, bells, virols, or rings, and leashes, in which case he is said to be hooded, belled, jessed, and leashed; […]” — 1836, Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford, The Popular Encyclopedia;: pt. 1: England-Germany (literature and science), page 698:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.viroled 74% match — Furnished with viroles; said of a horn or bugle whose rings are of different tincture. vs virole →virl 61% match — A ferrule. vs virole →buglet 60% match — A small bugle. vs virole →bugled 58% match — Ornamented with bugles. vs virole →bugling 57% match — The act of playing a bugle. vs virole →bugler 57% match — Someone who plays a bugle. vs virole →bugle 56% match — A horn used by hunters. vs virole →vervelle 56% match — A rivet containing a hole, or a staple, on a medieval helmet, by which a camail was attached (or rarely, on another piece of armor, by which e.g. a lance rest was attached). vs virole →