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pibroch

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈpiːbɹɒk/Part of speech nounSorted bchioprStarts with PEnds with H0 clues
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Definitions

  1. martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes

Word origin

From Scottish Gaelic pìobaireachd (“act of playing the bagpipes”), from pìobaire (“piper”) + -achd (“abstract noun suffix”).

Used in a sentence

  • Ever, as on they bore, more loud / And louder rung the pibroch proud.
  • He had heard the stirring pibrochs speed the Gordons in their fights, / It had borne them through the fire zone as they swung up Dargai's heights […]
  • Halfway through The Big Music, Kirsty Gunn notes that piobaireachd, a particular form of bagpipe composition, sounds ‘foreign and strange’ to those not raised on it.

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