pibroch
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of pibroch
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature.
“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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Etymology
From Scottish Gaelic pìobaireachd (“act of playing the bagpipes”), from pìobaire (“piper”) + -achd (“abstract noun suffix”).
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