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pibroch|ˈpiːbrəx|
Also 8–9 pibrach.
[ad. Gael. piobaireachd the art of playing the bagpipe, f. piobair a piper (f. piob a pipe, a. E. pipe) + -achd, suffix of function, quality, etc.]
In the Scotch Highlands, a series of variations for the bagpipe, founded on a theme called the urlar. They are generally of a martial character, but include dirges.
1719Hardyknute in Maidment Scott. Ball. (1868) I. 19 While playand pibrochs, minstralls meit Afore him statly strade. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 3 Sept., The pipers playing a pibroch all the time. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 275 A certain species of this wind music, called pibrachs, rouzes the native Highlander in the same way that the sound of the trumpet does the war-horse. 1810Scott Lady of L. ii. xv, Some pipe of war Sends the bold pibroch from afar. 1862Beveridge Hist. India III. ix. iv. 636 They cheered and charged with the bayonet, the pipes sounding the pibroch.
fig.1860C. Sangster Hesperus, etc. 81 The storm..shouts its mighty pibroch o'er some shipwrecked vessel's grave.
¶ It has been erroneously used as if = bagpipe. |