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pibroch

[ UK /pˈɪbɹɒk/ ]
NOUN
  1. martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes

How To Use pibroch In A Sentence

  • So, I knowing the people to pe unchancy, and not to lippen to, and hearing a pibroch in the wood, I pegan to pid my lads look to their flints, and then — The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • To this opinion Dr. Beattie has given his suffrage, in that following elegant passage: -- 'A pibroch is a species of tune, peculiar, I think, to the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland. The Lady of the Lake
  • A pibroch would cry for the wounded man but I needed more - I needed something tougher. They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff
  • Jacob and Esau emerged from her bedroom and slipped into their piercing pibroch of meows, weaving in and out of her feet. AN OLDER WOMAN
  • Her Majesty's piper, Mackay, had orders to play a pibroch under her windows every morning at seven o'clock.
  • The traditional music expert presents a programme in which he rediscovers what he maintains is the real ‘pibroch’ (Highland piping tradition).
  • The Emperor desired him to play "a lament," and Donald having tilled his bag, played a pibroch of most melancholy strain.
  • “Nay, then, I will don thy buff coat and cap of steel, and walk with thy swashing step, and whistling thy pibroch of ‘Broken Bones at Loncarty’; and if they take me for thee, there dare not four of them come near me.” The Fair Maid of Perth
  • He complained that pipers had lost the strong sense of rhythm and form which characterized the true pibroch style, and he published a number of well known tunes in settings which purported to give the true timings as originally played.
  • However, a few wee drams and a CD of pibroch music helps me get over it. Page 3
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