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strathspey|stræθˈspeɪ|
? Also 7 stravetspy.
[f. the Sc. place-name Strathspey (= the strath of the river Spey).
If the form stravetspy (quot. a 1653) be genuine and belong to this word, the mod. form would seem to be due to popular etymology.]
a. A lively dance or reel for two dancers.
b. The music or tune (usually in common time) used to accompany this dance. Also † strathspey minuet.
a1653Z. Boyd John Baptist in G. Neil Z. Boyd's Flowers of Zion (1832) p. xxx, To please the King, the Morrice dance I will; Stravetspy, and after, last of all, The Drunken Dance I'le dance within that hall. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Club) 195 Lady Hellen and Lord Garless danced a strathspey minuet. 1791Burns Tam o' Shanter 117 Nae cotillion brent-new frae France, But horn⁓pipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. 1810Scott Lady of L. ii. xi, Nor would my footsteps spring more gay In courtly dance than blithe strathspey. 1818― Rob Roy xxii, He..sate himself down on the oak table, and whistled a strathspey. 1882J. F. S. Gordon Shaw's Hist. Moray I. 239 He was one of the best violinists in the north and excelled in Strathspeys. |