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Pibroch   Listen
noun
Pibroch  n.  A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.





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"Pibroch" Quotes from Famous Books



... the gun, and mingled their hoarse and discordant notes with the echoes which replied to it, and with the roar of the mountain cataracts. Evan, a little disconcerted at having missed his mark, when he meant to have displayed peculiar dexterity, covered his confusion by whistling part of a pibroch as he reloaded his piece, and proceeded in silence ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott


Words linked to "Pibroch" :   military march, martial music, military music


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